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

Waxing Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 64% 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 9 August 2065 at 05:52.

Sturgeon Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2065 after 5 days on 16 August 2065 at 03:45.

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 ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1893".

Lunation 811 / 1764

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 811 of Meeus index or 1764 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠270.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠270.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303.1°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 06:04 about 14 days since last apogee on 26 July 2065 at 15:50 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 23 August 2065 at 10:35 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 369 504 km

This perigee Moon is 369 504 km (229 599 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 996 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 852 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 1 August 2065 at 05:11 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 August 2065 at 04:46 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 29 July 2065 at 06:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.196° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.171° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 August 2065 at 14:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 16 August 2065 at 03:45 in ♒ Aquarius 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