Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 7 September 2008 at 14:04.
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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1799"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2008 after 3 days on 15 September 2008 at 09:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 September 2008 at 09:13
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 22 September 2008 at 05:04
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 29 September 2008 at 08:12
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 7 October 2008 at 09:04
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 107 / 1060
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 107 of Meeus index or 1060 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 48 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 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠64.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠64.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠98.7°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 7 September 2008 at 14:58 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 September 2008 at 03:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 398 458 km
The Moon is 398 458 km (247 590 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 890 km (229 218 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 29 August 2008 at 10:30 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 September 2008 at 18:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 8 September 2008 at 06:13 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.550°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.476° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 September 2008 at 18:30 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 15 September 2008 at 09:13 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.
