Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 81% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 81% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 26 October 2009 at 00:42.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2009 after 4 days on 2 November 2009 at 19:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 November 2009 at 19:14
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 November 2009 at 15:56
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 16 November 2009 at 19:14
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 November 2009 at 21:39
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 121 / 1074
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 121 of Meeus index or 1074 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 41 minutes. It is 3 hours and 7 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠65.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠65.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.9°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 25 October 2009 at 23:18 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 7 November 2009 at 07:30 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 399 553 km
The Moon is 399 553 km (248 271 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 900 km (229 224 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 25 October 2009 at 08:52 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 November 2009 at 23:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, 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 22 October 2009 at 12:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.951°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.856° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 November 2009 at 15:31 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 2 November 2009 at 19:14 in ♉ Taurus 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.
