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 ♌ Leo.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2059 after 3 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 11 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
Length of current 732 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 next lunation 733 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 48 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠12.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠12.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠30°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 20:15, this is 12 days after last perigee on 13 March 2059 at 06:38 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 16 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 10 April 2059 at 13:47 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 406 038 km
This apogee Moon is 406 038 km (252 300 mi) away from Earth. It is 630 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 671 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 18 March 2059 at 12:04 in ♉ Taurus, 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 2 April 2059 at 02:16 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 21 March 2059 at 15:46 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.421°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.541° in the next southern standstill on 5 April 2059 at 06:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 29 March 2059 at 03:47 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.