Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 93% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% 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 11 July 2065 at 01:16.
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 passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2065 after 2 days on 17 July 2065 at 17:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 17 July 2065 at 17:45
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 25 July 2065 at 06:22
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 2 August 2065 at 05:46
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 9 August 2065 at 05:52
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 810 / 1763
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 810 of Meeus index or 1763 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 37 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠235.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠235.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠270.8°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 14 July 2065 at 17:50 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 July 2065 at 15:50 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 366 506 km
The Moon is 366 506 km (227 736 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 434 km (251 304 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 4 July 2065 at 21:42 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 July 2065 at 20:19 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
25 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 at southern standstill
At 07:31 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.199°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.196° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 July 2065 at 06:45.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 17 July 2065 at 17:45 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
