Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase on 11 September 2027 Saturday is Waxing Gibbous, 11 days young Moon is in Capricorn.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing 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 ♑ Capricorn.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 7 September 2027 at 18:31.
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 first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1906".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2027 after 4 days on 15 September 2027 at 23:04.
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 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 342 of Meeus index or 1295 from Brown series.
Length of current 342 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 55 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 343 length.
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 20 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠18.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠36.7°. 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°).
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 23:39, this is 12 days after last perigee on 30 August 2027 at 15:36 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 16 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 27 September 2027 at 20:12 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 405 384 km (251 894 mi) away from Earth. It is 24 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 325 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after its descending node on 29 August 2027 at 23:01 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 September 2027 at 11:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
3 days after previous South standstill on 8 September 2027 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.122°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.015° in the next northern standstill on 22 September 2027 at 20:33 in ♊ Gemini.
After 4 days on 15 September 2027 at 23:04 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.