Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 16 April 2081 at 17:31.
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 ∠21° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1909".
Pink Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2081 after 2 days on 23 April 2081 at 10:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 April 2081 at 10:20
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 30 April 2081 at 21:24
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 May 2081 at 22:09
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 15 May 2081 at 23:21
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 1005 / 1958
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 1005 of Meeus index or 1958 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 54 minutes. It is 3 hours and 1 minute longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 1 hour and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠231.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠231.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:04. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 4 April 2081 at 19:49 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 2 May 2081 at 14:12 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 364 640 km
This perigee Moon is 364 640 km (226 577 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 132 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 716 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 16:02 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 4 May 2081 at 10:34 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 14 April 2081 at 16:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.586°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.521° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 April 2081 at 11:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 23 April 2081 at 10:20 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.
