Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 23 April 2075 at 11:53.
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 ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1864"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1906".
Pink Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2075 after 3 days on 30 April 2075 at 18:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 April 2075 at 18:37
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 May 2075 at 09:59
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 May 2075 at 23:22
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 May 2075 at 03:57
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 931 / 1884
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 931 of Meeus index or 1884 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 27 minutes. It is 50 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠113.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠113.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠145.4°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 20 April 2075 at 18:02 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 May 2075 at 16:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 384 559 km
The Moon is 384 559 km (238 954 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 942 km (224 900 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 22 April 2075 at 03:55 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 May 2075 at 05:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 21 April 2075 at 16:04 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.404°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.503° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 May 2075 at 22:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 30 April 2075 at 18:37 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.
