Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 92% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 92% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 4 September 2011 at 17:39.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1825"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1825" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2011 after 2 days on 12 September 2011 at 09:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 12 September 2011 at 09:27
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 20 September 2011 at 13:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 September 2011 at 11:09
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 October 2011 at 03:15
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 144 / 1097
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 144 of Meeus index or 1097 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
Length of current 144 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 5 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2011. It is 42 minutes shorter than next lunation 145 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 30 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠333.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠333.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠350.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 30 August 2011 at 17:35 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 September 2011 at 06:23 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 392 677 km
Moon is 392 677 km (243 998 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 068 km (252 319 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 5 September 2011 at 07:36 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 19 September 2011 at 19:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 5 September 2011 at 05:01 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.047°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.890° in the next northern standstill on 19 September 2011 at 20:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 12 September 2011 at 09:27 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.