Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
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 ♒ Aquarius.
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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 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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1902".
Harvest Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2066 after 2 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 12 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 at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 01:49. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 16 August 2066 at 05:19 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 12 September 2066 at 22:49 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 365 541 km
This perigee Moon is 365 541 km (227 137 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 033 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 815 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 30 August 2066 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 September 2066 at 00:19 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days 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 10 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 2 days
In 2 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.
