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
The length of the 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 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.5°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2009 at 10:39 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 July 2009 at 21:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 402 990 km
The Moon is 402 990 km (250 406 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 233 km (252 421 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 24 June 2009 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 July 2009 at 15:24 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
24 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 at southern standstill
At 07:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.460°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.477° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 19 July 2009 at 13:01.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 7 July 2009 at 09:21 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
