Waxing
Gibbous ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 65% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 65% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 20 March 2059 at 23:30.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1925".
Worm Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2059 after 6 days on 29 March 2059 at 03:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 29 March 2059 at 03:47
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 April 2059 at 18:46
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 12 April 2059 at 09:28
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 19 April 2059 at 16:37
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 732 / 1685
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 732 of Meeus index or 1685 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 23 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2059. It is 24 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 48 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠12.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠12.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 13 March 2059 at 06:38 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 March 2059 at 20:15 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 399 038 km
The Moon is 399 038 km (247 951 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 038 km (252 300 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 18 March 2059 at 12:04 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 April 2059 at 02:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 21 March 2059 at 15:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.421°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.541° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 April 2059 at 06:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 29 March 2059 at 03:47 in ♎ Libra the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
