Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% 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 3 September 2022 at 18:08.
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 ∠5° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2022 after 2 days on 10 September 2022 at 09:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 September 2022 at 09:59
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 17 September 2022 at 21:52
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 September 2022 at 21:54
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 October 2022 at 00:14
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 280 / 1233
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 280 of Meeus index or 1233 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 37 minutes. It is 43 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠230.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠230.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:17. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 22 August 2022 at 21:53 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 19 September 2022 at 14:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 364 491 km
This perigee Moon is 364 491 km (226 484 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 983 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 865 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 1 September 2022 at 21:12 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2022 at 14:49 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 5 September 2022 at 13:56 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.219°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.316° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2022 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 10 September 2022 at 09:59 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.
