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

Waxing Gibbous in Scorpio

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 94% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 12 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.

4 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 11 June 2084 at 14:03.

Strawberry Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2084 after 1 day on 18 June 2084 at 10:00.

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 ∠1949"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1888".

Lunation 1044 / 1997

The Moon is 12 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1044 of Meeus index or 1997 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter 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 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠157°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠157° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.4°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 5 June 2084 at 20:10 in ♋ Cancer 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 18 June 2084 at 20:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 367 829 km

The Moon is 367 829 km (228 558 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 416 km (222 088 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 6 June 2084 at 12:27 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 June 2084 at 20:57 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 3 June 2084 at 23:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.616° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.635° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 June 2084 at 21:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 18 June 2084 at 10:00 in ♐ Sagittarius 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