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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. It is 28 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠156.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠156.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.2°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 24 July 2085 at 03:49 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 August 2085 at 03:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 372 607 km
The Moon is 372 607 km (231 527 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 268 km (221 996 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:43 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 15 August 2085 at 13:51 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 20:43 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 1 August 2085 at 23:37 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.052°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.995° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 August 2085 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 5 August 2085 at 17:29 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.
