Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 89% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 89% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 12 September 2013 at 17:08.
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 ∠1955"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1909".
Harvest Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2013 after 2 days on 19 September 2013 at 11:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2013 at 11:13
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 September 2013 at 03:56
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 5 October 2013 at 00:35
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 October 2013 at 23:02
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 169 / 1122
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 169 of Meeus index or 1122 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
Length of current 169 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 58 minutes. It is 43 minutes longer than next lunation 170 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 14 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 49 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠249.2°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠249.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠285.3°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 15 September 2013 at 16:34 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 27 September 2013 at 18:17 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 366 551 km
Moon is 366 551 km (227 764 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 309 km (251 226 mi).
Moon before descending node
6 days after its ascending node on 9 September 2013 at 17:29 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 September 2013 at 13:48 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 12 September 2013 at 18:30 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.685°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.599° in the next northern standstill on 26 September 2013 at 01:03 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 19 September 2013 at 11:13 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.