Waxing
Gibbous ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 73% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 73% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 6 September 2019 at 03:10.
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 ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1819"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1819" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2019 after 5 days on 14 September 2019 at 04:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 14 September 2019 at 04:33
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 22 September 2019 at 02:41
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 September 2019 at 18:26
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 October 2019 at 16:47
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 243 / 1196
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 243 of Meeus index or 1196 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠356.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠356.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠11.4°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 30 August 2019 at 15:57 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 September 2019 at 13:32 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 393 960 km
The Moon is 393 960 km (244 795 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 378 km (252 512 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 17:35 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 23 September 2019 at 06:30 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 09:39 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.539°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.681° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 23 September 2019 at 01:54.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 14 September 2019 at 04:33 in ♓ Pisces 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.
