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
Length of current 1145 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 20 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than next lunation 1146 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 24 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 45 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠246.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠246.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠282.2°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 17:47, this is 15 days after last apogee on 29 July 2092 at 00:58 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the 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 farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 3 August 2092 at 13:51 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 16 August 2092 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 31 July 2092 at 20:14 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.082°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.084° in the next southern standstill on 14 August 2092 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 17 August 2092 at 09:22 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.