Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 30 April 2058 at 20:18.
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 ∠25° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1816"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2058 after 3 days on 8 May 2058 at 10:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 8 May 2058 at 10:12
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 15 May 2058 at 03:58
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 22 May 2058 at 10:23
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 30 May 2058 at 13:33
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 721 / 1674
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 721 of Meeus index or 1674 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
Length of current 721 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes shorter than next lunation 722 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 10 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 53 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠82.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠82.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠118.2°. 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
4 days after point of apogee on 29 April 2058 at 19:18 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 11 May 2058 at 17:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 394 621 km
Moon is 394 621 km (245 206 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 366 328 km (227 626 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 26 April 2058 at 05:25 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 May 2058 at 07:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
8 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
6 days after previous North standstill on 28 April 2058 at 07:29 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.222°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.271° in the next southern standstill on 12 May 2058 at 02:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 8 May 2058 at 10:12 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.