Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 86% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 86% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 29 July 2085 at 20:47.
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 ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1924"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1891".
Sturgeon Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2085 after 3 days on 5 August 2085 at 17:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 5 August 2085 at 17:29
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 12 August 2085 at 09:00
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 20 August 2085 at 09:10
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 28 August 2085 at 08:30
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 1058 / 2011
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 1058 of Meeus index or 2011 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 1058 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. It is 28 minutes shorter than next lunation 1059 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠156.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠156.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠180.2°. 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 before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 24 July 2085 at 03:49 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 August 2085 at 03:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 372 607 km
Moon is 372 607 km (231 527 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 268 km (221 996 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:43 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 15 August 2085 at 13:51 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 20:43 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 1 August 2085 at 23:37 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.052°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.995° in the next northern standstill on 14 August 2085 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 5 August 2085 at 17:29 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.