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

Waxing Gibbous in Aquarius

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 69% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 5 October 2076 at 18:26.

Hunter Moon after 4 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2076 after 4 days on 12 October 2076 at 09:37.

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 ∠1968"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1921".

Lunation 949 / 1902

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 949 of Meeus index or 1902 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 45 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠219.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠219.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.1°.

Moon before perigee

13 days since point of apogee on 24 September 2076 at 11:16 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 October 2076 at 06:57 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 364 237 km

The Moon is 364 237 km (226 326 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 695 km (225 368 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 4 October 2076 at 00:05 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 5 October 2076 at 13:46 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.833° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.937° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 October 2076 at 10:01 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 12 October 2076 at 09:37 in ♈ Aries 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