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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 85% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 1 September 2071 at 11:10.

Harvest Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2071 after 4 days on 9 September 2071 at 14:51.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1903".

Lunation 886 / 1839

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 886 of Meeus index or 1839 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.38 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 5 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠21.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠21.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.7°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 06:50 about 12 days since last perigee on 24 August 2071 at 01:45 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 21 September 2071 at 04:01 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 405 348 km

This apogee Moon is 405 348 km (251 872 mi) away from Earth. It is 60 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 361 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 27 August 2071 at 02:29 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 September 2071 at 12:00 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 3 September 2071 at 06:02 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.164° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.143° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 September 2071 at 12:25 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 9 September 2071 at 14:51 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.

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