Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
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 ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 22 July 2083 at 08:56.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2083 after 2 days on 29 July 2083 at 01:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 July 2083 at 01:00
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2083 at 12:38
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 13 August 2083 at 12:45
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 20 August 2083 at 13:46
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 1033 / 1986
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 1033 of Meeus index or 1986 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 51 minutes. It is 1 hour and 29 minutes 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 7 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 56 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠232°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠232°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠266.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 06:24. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 10 July 2083 at 10:51 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 7 August 2083 at 03:44 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 364 756 km
This perigee Moon is 364 756 km (226 649 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 248 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 600 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 16 July 2083 at 06:07 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 July 2083 at 04:55 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 00:18 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.954°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.955° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 8 August 2083 at 19:08.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 29 July 2083 at 01:00 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
