Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 69% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 69% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 2 days on 7 October 2027 at 11:47.
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 ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1921".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2027 after 6 days on 15 October 2027 at 13:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 15 October 2027 at 13:47
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 22 October 2027 at 17:29
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 29 October 2027 at 13:36
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 November 2027 at 08:00
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 343 / 1296
The Moon is 9 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 343 of Meeus index or 1296 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠36.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠36.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠61.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 15:47. It is 11 days after previous perigee on 27 September 2027 at 20:12 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 25 October 2027 at 05:36 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 404 531 km
This apogee Moon is 404 531 km (251 364 mi) away from Earth. It is 877 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 178 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 14:58 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 23 October 2027 at 08:15 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 14:58 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 5 October 2027 at 16:53 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.921°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.793° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 October 2027 at 01:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 15 October 2027 at 13:47 in ♈ Aries 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.
