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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 14 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 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 in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1860"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1860" and ∠1908".
Harvest Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2008 after 1 day 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
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 107 / 1060
The Moon is 14 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 before apogee
6 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 20 September 2008 at 03:17 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 385 432 km
The Moon is 385 432 km (239 496 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 890 km (229 218 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 12 September 2008 at 18:24 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 September 2008 at 16:20 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 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 7 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 1 day
In 1 day 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.
