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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 98% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 98% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 28 September 2017 at 02:54.
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 ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1870"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1870" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2017 after 1 day on 5 October 2017 at 18:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 5 October 2017 at 18:40
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 October 2017 at 12:25
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 October 2017 at 19:12
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 27 October 2017 at 22:22
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 219 / 1172
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 219 of Meeus index or 1172 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes. It is 2 hours and 48 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 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠79°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠79°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠114.6°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 27 September 2017 at 06:49 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 October 2017 at 05:51 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 383 263 km
The Moon is 383 263 km (238 149 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 858 km (227 955 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 2 October 2017 at 02:05 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 October 2017 at 22:10 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 28 September 2017 at 10:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.516°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.616° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 October 2017 at 18:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 5 October 2017 at 18:40 in ♈ Aries 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.
