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 65% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 9 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 7 September 2095 at 01:26.

Harvest Moon after 5 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2095 after 5 days on 14 September 2095 at 01:11.

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 ∠1847"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1905".

Lunation 1183 / 2136

The Moon is 9 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1183 of Meeus index or 2136 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.66 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 49 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠142.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠142.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.3°.

Moon after apogee

6 days since point of apogee on 2 September 2095 at 11:07 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 14 September 2095 at 22:53 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 388 068 km

The Moon is 388 068 km (241 134 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 244 km (222 603 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 7 September 2095 at 00:47 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 September 2095 at 14:10 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before southern standstill

14 days since the last northern standstill on 25 August 2095 at 09:24 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.058° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.188° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 September 2095 at 01:37 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 14 September 2095 at 01:11 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