Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 20 August 2083 at 13:46.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1920"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1899".
Sturgeon Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2083 after 1 day on 27 August 2083 at 11:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 27 August 2083 at 11:00
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 4 September 2083 at 06:24
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 September 2083 at 00:07
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 September 2083 at 18:56
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 1034 / 1987
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 1034 of Meeus index or 1987 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 1 hour and 6 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠266.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠266.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠299.9°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 22 August 2083 at 01:59 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 September 2083 at 22:33 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 373 334 km
The Moon is 373 334 km (231 979 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 236 km (251 181 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 13:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 8 September 2083 at 21:09 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 13:34 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 22 August 2083 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.925°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.867° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 September 2083 at 03:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 27 August 2083 at 11:00 in ♓ Pisces 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.
