Waxing Gibbous on

Moon phase on 9 September 2022 Friday is Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in Pisces.

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Lunar calendar 2022 | September 2022

Waxing Gibbous phase
Waxing Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated

Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.

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Moon phase and lunation details

5 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 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 is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1939"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1939" and ∠1905".

Harvest Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2022 after 1 day on 10 September 2022 at 09:59.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 280 / 1233

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 280 of Meeus index or 1233 from Brown series.

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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 after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 7 September 2022 at 18:17 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 September 2022 at 14:44 in ♋ Cancer.

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Distance to Moon 369 708 km

The Moon is 369 708 km (229 726 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 556 km (251 379 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 1 September 2022 at 21:12 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 14 September 2022 at 14:49 in ♉ Taurus.

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Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

3 days 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 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.316° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 September 2022 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer.

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Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day 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.

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