Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 74% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 74% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 28 August 2066 at 08:25.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2066 after 4 days on 4 September 2066 at 01:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 September 2066 at 01:37
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 11 September 2066 at 14:16
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 19 September 2066 at 13:47
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 September 2066 at 14:19
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 824 / 1777
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 824 of Meeus index or 1777 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 58 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 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 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠236.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠236.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠272.1°.
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of apogee on 16 August 2066 at 05:19 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 September 2066 at 01:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 300 km
The Moon is 363 300 km (225 744 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 541 km (227 137 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 14:05 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 13 September 2066 at 00:19 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 14:05 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 29 August 2066 at 07:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.516°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.408° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 September 2066 at 14:21 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 4 September 2066 at 01:37 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.
