Waxing
Gibbous ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 26 May 2080 at 02:03.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1876"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1876" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2080 after 4 days on 2 June 2080 at 13:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 June 2080 at 13:45
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 June 2080 at 17:20
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 June 2080 at 18:40
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 24 June 2080 at 09:12
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 994 / 1947
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 994 of Meeus index or 1947 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
Length of current 994 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than next lunation 995 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 9 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠323.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠323.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠341.5°. 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 after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 21 May 2080 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 6 June 2080 at 12:37 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 382 059 km
Moon is 382 059 km (237 400 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 518 km (251 977 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 28 May 2080 at 17:05 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 June 2080 at 05:55 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 21 May 2080 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.443°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.386° in the next southern standstill on 4 June 2080 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 2 June 2080 at 13:45 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.