Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 1 April 2058 at 01:03.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1793"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1917".
Pink Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2058 after 3 days on 8 April 2058 at 22:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2058 at 22:55
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 15 April 2058 at 22:27
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 22 April 2058 at 21:29
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 April 2058 at 20:18
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 720 / 1673
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 720 of Meeus index or 1673 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
Length of current 720 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes shorter than next lunation 721 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 4 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠50.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠50.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠82.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 1 April 2058 at 23:36 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 April 2058 at 18:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 399 806 km
Moon is 399 806 km (248 428 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 945 km (229 873 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 30 March 2058 at 00:38 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 April 2058 at 02:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 31 March 2058 at 23:15 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.018°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.135° in the next southern standstill on 14 April 2058 at 20:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 8 April 2058 at 22:55 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.