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 ♑ Capricorn.
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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 7 September 2027 at 18:31.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2027 after 4 days on 15 September 2027 at 23:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 September 2027 at 23:04
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 23 September 2027 at 10:20
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 September 2027 at 02:36
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 7 October 2027 at 11:47
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 342 / 1295
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.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
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.
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠18.2°
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 in apogee
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.
Distance to Moon 405 384 km
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.
Moon before ascending node
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.
Draconic month
26 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
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.
Syzygy in 4 days
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.