Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 97% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 29 June 2009 at 11:28.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2009 after 1 day on 7 July 2009 at 09:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 7 July 2009 at 09:21
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 July 2009 at 09:53
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 July 2009 at 02:35
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 July 2009 at 22:00
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 117 / 1070
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 117 of Meeus index or 1070 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
Length of current 117 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2009. It is 27 minutes shorter than next lunation 118 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 25 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠349.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠4.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2009 at 10:39 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 July 2009 at 21:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 402 990 km
Moon is 402 990 km (250 406 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 233 km (252 421 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after its descending node on 24 June 2009 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer, 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 8 July 2009 at 15:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in southern standstill
At 07:34 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-26.460°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠26.477° in its northern standstill point on 19 July 2009 at 13:01 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 7 July 2009 at 09:21 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.