Waxing Gibbous on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 77% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 10 days young.
Moonrise and moonset
The 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 phases on nearby dates
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Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 7 October 2027 at 11:47.
Hunter Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2027 after 5 days on 15 October 2027 at 13:47.
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.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1922".
Lunation 343 / 1296
The Moon is 10 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 343 of Meeus index or 1296 from Brown series.
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 details for
True anomaly ∠36.7°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠36.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠61.7°.
Moon after apogee
1 day since point of apogee on 9 October 2027 at 15:47 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 October 2027 at 05:36 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 405 328 km(251 859 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 651 km(229 069 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 9 October 2027 at 14:58 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 October 2027 at 08:15 in ♌ Leo.
4 days since the last southern 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 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.793° at the point of next northern standstill on 20 October 2027 at 01:41 in ♊ Gemini.
In 5 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.