Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Scorpio

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 99% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 14 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The 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 phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

7 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 19 May 2059 at 10:22.

Flower Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 1 day on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1843"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1843" and ∠1894".

Lunation 734 / 1687

The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 734 of Meeus index or 1687 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 20 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠53.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠53.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.4°.

Moon after apogee

6 days since point of apogee on 20 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 June 2059 at 22:39 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 388 879 km

The Moon is 388 879 km (241 638 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 676 km (229 706 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 14:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 8 June 2059 at 12:58 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.665° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.652° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 May 2059 at 17:41 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 27 May 2059 at 08:04 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov