Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 83% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% 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 24 September 2020 at 01:55.
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 ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1836"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1836" and ∠1915".
Hunter Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2020 after 4 days on 1 October 2020 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 October 2020 at 21:05
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2020 at 00:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2020 at 19:31
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 23 October 2020 at 13:23
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 256 / 1209
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 256 of Meeus index or 1209 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠341.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 18 September 2020 at 13:44 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 October 2020 at 17:22 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 390 446 km
The Moon is 390 446 km (242 612 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 321 km (252 476 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 23 September 2020 at 12:33 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 8 October 2020 at 00:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 24 September 2020 at 19:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.458°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.613° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 October 2020 at 13:07 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 1 October 2020 at 21:05 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.
