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 98% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 13 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 passing about ∠5° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 7 May 2090 at 00:38.

Flower Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2090 after 1 day on 13 May 2090 at 19:01.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1929"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1899".

Lunation 1117 / 2070

The Moon is 13 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1117 of Meeus index or 2070 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 35 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠246°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠246° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠280.8°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 10 May 2090 at 05:31 in ♎ Libra 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 22 May 2090 at 05:49 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 371 571 km

The Moon is 371 571 km (230 884 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 185 km (251 149 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 9 May 2090 at 23:10 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 May 2090 at 16:27 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the last northern standstill on 3 May 2090 at 15:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.290° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.355° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 May 2090 at 12:41 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 13 May 2090 at 19:01 in ♏ Scorpio 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