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

Waxing Gibbous in Capricorn

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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 19 August 2094 at 06:26.

Sturgeon Moon after 3 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2094 after 3 days on 26 August 2094 at 00:51.

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 ∠1933"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1898".

Lunation 1170 / 2123

The Moon is 11 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1170 of Meeus index or 2123 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.66 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 55 minutes and it is 18 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠167.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠167.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.4°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 12 August 2094 at 14:04 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 26 August 2094 at 01:39 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 370 844 km

The Moon is 370 844 km (230 432 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 868 km (221 747 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 04:41 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 3 September 2094 at 19:00 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon at southern standstill

At 13:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.409°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.478° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 4 September 2094 at 07:14.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 26 August 2094 at 00:51 in ♓ Pisces 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