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

Waxing Gibbous in Sagittarius

Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 83% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 11 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 18 July 2086 at 21:45.

Buck Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2086 after 3 days on 26 July 2086 at 09:24.

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 ∠1829"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1829" and ∠1889".

Lunation 1070 / 2023

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1070 of Meeus index or 2023 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 36 minutes and it is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 8 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 1 minute longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠95.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠95.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.5°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 17 July 2086 at 04:25 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 July 2086 at 01:59 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 391 893 km

The Moon is 391 893 km (243 511 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 494 km (226 486 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 14:50 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next descending node later on 4 August 2086 at 08:12 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 8 July 2086 at 14:01 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.447° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.388° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 July 2086 at 01:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.

New draconic month

At 14:50 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 26 July 2086 at 09:24 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.

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