Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 70% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and growing larger. The 9 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 24 September 2001 at 09:31.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1787"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1787" and ∠1914".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2001 after 6 days on 2 October 2001 at 13:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 October 2001 at 13:49
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2001 at 04:20
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2001 at 19:23
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2001 at 02:58
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 21 / 974
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 21 of Meeus index or 974 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 56 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠13.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30.5°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 16 September 2001 at 15:50 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 September 2001 at 05:33 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 401 058 km
The Moon is 401 058 km (249 206 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 791 km (252 147 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 24 September 2001 at 10:28 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 October 2001 at 22:32 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 25 September 2001 at 05:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.780°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.937° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 October 2001 at 18:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 2 October 2001 at 13:49 in ♈ Aries 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.
