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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 72% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 3 September 2060 at 04:36.

Harvest Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2060 after 4 days on 10 September 2060 at 09:44.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1833"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1833" and ∠1904".

Lunation 750 / 1703

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 750 of Meeus index or 1703 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.62 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes and it is 2 hours and 35 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠119.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠119.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠149.6°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 31 August 2060 at 02:25 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 September 2060 at 02:40 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 391 063 km

The Moon is 391 063 km (242 995 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 154 km (224 411 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 30 August 2060 at 17:20 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 September 2060 at 04:20 in ♈ Aries.

Moon at southern standstill

At 02:26 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.952°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.029° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 17 September 2060 at 19:05.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 10 September 2060 at 09:44 in ♓ Pisces 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