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Moon ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 29 May 2001 at 22:09.
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 in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1863"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1863" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2001 after 1 day on 6 June 2001 at 01:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 June 2001 at 01:39
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 14 June 2001 at 03:28
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 21 June 2001 at 11:58
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 June 2001 at 03:20
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 17 / 970
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 17 of Meeus index or 970 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
Length of current 17 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 18 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 37 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠299.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠299.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠324.1°. 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 apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 27 May 2001 at 07:07 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 June 2001 at 19:48 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 384 675 km
Moon is 384 675 km (239 026 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 630 km (251 425 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after its ascending node on 25 May 2001 at 13:51 in ♊ Gemini, 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 7 June 2001 at 17:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
9 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 25 May 2001 at 23:03 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.388°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-23.414° in the next southern standstill on 8 June 2001 at 05:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 6 June 2001 at 01:39 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.