Waxing
Gibbous ♐ Sagittarius
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 ♏ Scorpio.
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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 11 June 2065 at 19:25.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2065 after 1 day on 18 June 2065 at 09:28.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 June 2065 at 09:28
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 25 June 2065 at 14:08
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 July 2065 at 17:16
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 11 July 2065 at 01:16
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 809 / 1762
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 809 of Meeus index or 1762 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠206.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠206.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:01. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 1 June 2065 at 09:08 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 28 June 2065 at 22:35 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 360 552 km
This perigee Moon is 360 552 km (224 037 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 956 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 804 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 7 June 2065 at 16:41 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 June 2065 at 10:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 4 June 2065 at 16:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.155°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.172° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 June 2065 at 22:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 18 June 2065 at 09:28 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.
