Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 1 October 2014 at 19:33.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2014 after 2 days on 8 October 2014 at 10:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 8 October 2014 at 10:51
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 15 October 2014 at 19:12
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 October 2014 at 21:57
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 31 October 2014 at 02:48
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 182 / 1135
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 182 of Meeus index or 1135 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
Length of current 182 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes longer than next lunation 183 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 4 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠218.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠218.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠252.3°. 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 before perigee
14 days after point of apogee on 20 September 2014 at 14:22 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 6 October 2014 at 09:41 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 363 503 km
Moon is 363 503 km (225 870 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 481 km (225 235 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 25 September 2014 at 17:41 in ♎ Libra, 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 8 October 2014 at 17:44 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 30 September 2014 at 19:29 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.528°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.517° in the next northern standstill on 13 October 2014 at 13:34 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 8 October 2014 at 10:51 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.