Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase on 24 September 2026 Thursday is Waxing Gibbous, 12 days young Moon is in Pisces.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 18 September 2026 at 20:44.
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 passing about ∠5° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1826" and ∠1913".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2026 after 2 days on 26 September 2026 at 16:49.
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.
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 330 of Meeus index or 1283 from Brown series.
Length of current 330 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 23 minutes. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter than next lunation 331 length.
Length of current synodic month is 21 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 48 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠61.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠94.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
5 days after point of apogee on 19 September 2026 at 03:00 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 October 2026 at 20:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Moon is 392 592 km (243 945 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 369 338 km (229 496 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 02:40 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet descending node on 7 October 2026 at 01:19 in ♌ Leo.
At 02:40 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
5 days after previous South standstill on 18 September 2026 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.065°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.989° in the next northern standstill on 2 October 2026 at 11:35 in ♊ Gemini.
After 2 days on 26 September 2026 at 16:49 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.