Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 7 April 2060 at 19:42.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2060 after 2 days on 15 April 2060 at 21:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 15 April 2060 at 21:21
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 23 April 2060 at 18:53
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 30 April 2060 at 10:11
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 7 May 2060 at 09:19
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 745 / 1698
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 745 of Meeus index or 1698 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 33 minutes. It is 20 minutes longer 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 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠358.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.7°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 1 April 2060 at 04:11 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 April 2060 at 20:02 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 404 393 km
The Moon is 404 393 km (251 278 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 305 km (252 466 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 2 April 2060 at 19:04 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 16 April 2060 at 20:33 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
10 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
6 days since the previous standstill on 6 April 2060 at 21:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.697°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.732° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 April 2060 at 15:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 15 April 2060 at 21:21 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.
