Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 85% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 85% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 27 August 2009 at 11:42.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2009 after 4 days on 4 September 2009 at 16:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 4 September 2009 at 16:03
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 12 September 2009 at 02:16
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 18 September 2009 at 18:44
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 26 September 2009 at 04:50
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 119 / 1072
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 119 of Meeus index or 1072 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
Length of current 119 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than next lunation 120 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 8 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠20.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠20.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠39.3°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 11:04, this is 12 days after last perigee on 19 August 2009 at 04:53 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 16 September 2009 at 07:55 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 405 269 km
This apogee Moon is 405 269 km (251 822 mi) away from Earth. It is 139 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 440 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after its descending node on 18 August 2009 at 14:06 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 1 September 2009 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 28 August 2009 at 20:17 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.391°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.289° in the next northern standstill on 12 September 2009 at 04:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 4 September 2009 at 16:03 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.