Waxing
Gibbous ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 19 March 2070 at 09:53.
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 ∠8° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1857"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1857" and ∠1924".
Worm Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2070 after 2 days on 26 March 2070 at 17:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 March 2070 at 17:31
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 April 2070 at 21:23
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 April 2070 at 02:30
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 17 April 2070 at 17:32
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 868 / 1821
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 868 of Meeus index or 1821 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
Length of current 868 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes. It is 2 hours longer than next lunation 869 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 3 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠312°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠312°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠333.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 15 March 2070 at 17:55 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 31 March 2070 at 17:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 385 903 km
Moon is 385 903 km (239 789 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 036 km (251 678 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 14 March 2070 at 23:47 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 March 2070 at 06:44 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 19 March 2070 at 00:13 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.809°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.755° in the next southern standstill on 2 April 2070 at 03:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 26 March 2070 at 17:31 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.