Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 21 April 2067 at 14:15.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1785"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1907".
Pink Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2067 after 4 days on 29 April 2067 at 08:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 29 April 2067 at 08:40
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 May 2067 at 05:19
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 13 May 2067 at 07:20
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 21 May 2067 at 08:29
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 832 / 1785
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 832 of Meeus index or 1785 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠63.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠63.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠98.3°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 21 April 2067 at 15:37 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 May 2067 at 04:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 401 492 km
The Moon is 401 492 km (249 476 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 880 km (229 211 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 18 April 2067 at 06:40 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 May 2067 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 17 April 2067 at 23:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.205°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.143° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 May 2067 at 04:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 29 April 2067 at 08:40 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
