Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 10 August 2092 at 15:18.
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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1894".
Sturgeon Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2092 after 3 days on 17 August 2092 at 09:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 17 August 2092 at 09:22
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 August 2092 at 00:32
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 1 September 2092 at 22:14
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 September 2092 at 20:15
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 1145 / 2098
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1145 of Meeus index or 2098 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 20 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠246.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠246.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.2°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 17:47. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 29 July 2092 at 00:58 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 25 August 2092 at 18:58 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 366 986 km
This perigee Moon is 366 986 km (228 035 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 478 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 370 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 3 August 2092 at 13:51 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 16 August 2092 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 31 July 2092 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.082°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-20.084° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2092 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 17 August 2092 at 09:22 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.
