Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and growing larger. The 10 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 3 September 2003 at 12:34.
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 passing about ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1922"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1922" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2003 after 4 days on 10 September 2003 at 16:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 September 2003 at 16:36
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 18 September 2003 at 19:03
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 September 2003 at 03:09
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 2 October 2003 at 19:09
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 45 / 998
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 45 of Meeus index or 998 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠301°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠301°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.5°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 31 August 2003 at 18:47 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 September 2003 at 09:22 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 372 891 km
The Moon is 372 891 km (231 704 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 713 km (251 477 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 2 September 2003 at 07:23 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 September 2003 at 23:28 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, 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 5 September 2003 at 11:54 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.746°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.874° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 September 2003 at 19:56 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 10 September 2003 at 16:36 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.
