Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 79% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 79% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 10 October 2005 at 19:01.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2005 after 4 days on 17 October 2005 at 12:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 October 2005 at 12:14
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 October 2005 at 01:17
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 November 2005 at 01:25
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 9 November 2005 at 01:57
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 71 / 1024
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 71 of Meeus index or 1024 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
Length of current 71 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes longer than next lunation 72 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠236.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠236.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠273.1°. 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 perigee
14 days after point of apogee on 28 September 2005 at 15:20 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 14 October 2005 at 13:50 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 365 450 km (227 080 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 3 October 2005 at 16:51 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 October 2005 at 18:25 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 9 October 2005 at 16:42 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.604°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.583° in the next northern standstill on 22 October 2005 at 15:02 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 17 October 2005 at 12:14 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.