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 ♑ Capricorn.
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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 20 August 2072 at 17:20.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1792"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1899".
Sturgeon Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2072 after 3 days on 28 August 2072 at 15:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 August 2072 at 15:59
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 5 September 2072 at 16:19
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 September 2072 at 09:07
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 September 2072 at 04:58
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 898 / 1851
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 898 of Meeus index or 1851 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 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 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠350.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠350.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.6°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 14 August 2072 at 14:59 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 August 2072 at 00:37 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 400 083 km
The Moon is 400 083 km (248 600 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 270 km (252 444 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 15 August 2072 at 05:10 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 28 August 2072 at 23:05 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 23 August 2072 at 14:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.564°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.564° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 September 2072 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 28 August 2072 at 15:59 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.
