Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 91% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 91% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 21 July 2064 at 03:35.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1889"
Lunar disc appears visually 0% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1889" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2064 after 2 days on 28 July 2064 at 07:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 28 July 2064 at 07:40
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2064 at 09:41
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 12 August 2064 at 17:49
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 19 August 2064 at 08:55
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 798 / 1751
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 798 of Meeus index or 1751 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
Length of current 798 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 3 minutes. It is 41 minutes longer than next lunation 799 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 41 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 28 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠301.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠301.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠325.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 18 July 2064 at 08:38 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 2 August 2064 at 22:45 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 379 354 km
Moon is 379 354 km (235 720 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 778 km (251 517 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 16 July 2064 at 00:17 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 July 2064 at 02:05 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 00:49 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-27.393°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠27.403° in its northern standstill point on 8 August 2064 at 13:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 28 July 2064 at 07:40 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.