Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 73% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 73% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 1 November 2003 at 04:25.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1853"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1853" and ∠1934".
Beaver Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2003 after 5 days on 9 November 2003 at 01:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 November 2003 at 01:14
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 November 2003 at 04:15
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 November 2003 at 22:59
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 November 2003 at 17:16
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 47 / 1000
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 47 of Meeus index or 1000 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 9 minutes. It is 35 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠344°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠344°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.8°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 26 October 2003 at 11:34 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 November 2003 at 12:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 386 864 km
The Moon is 386 864 km (240 386 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 298 km (252 462 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 26 October 2003 at 18:43 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 November 2003 at 09:48 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
21 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
4 days since the previous standstill on 29 October 2003 at 23:54 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.091°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.105° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 November 2003 at 10:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 9 November 2003 at 01:14 in ♉ Taurus 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.
