Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 27 August 2058 at 02:10.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1958"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1900".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2058 after 4 days on 2 September 2058 at 16:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 2 September 2058 at 16:51
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 9 September 2058 at 18:07
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 17 September 2058 at 22:17
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 September 2058 at 10:14
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 725 / 1678
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 725 of Meeus index or 1678 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
Length of current 725 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 14 minutes. It is 27 minutes longer than next lunation 726 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 30 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 33 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠196°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠196°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠223°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 17 August 2058 at 13:13 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 September 2058 at 14:39 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 366 081 km
Moon is 366 081 km (227 472 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 916 km (223 020 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 27 August 2058 at 14:29 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 9 September 2058 at 03:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 15:55 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-25.493°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠25.586° in its northern standstill point on 11 September 2058 at 14:56 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 2 September 2058 at 16:51 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.