Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 79% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 79% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 16 September 2037 at 10:36.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1811"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1911".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2037 after 4 days on 24 September 2037 at 11:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 September 2037 at 11:32
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 2 October 2037 at 10:29
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 9 October 2037 at 02:34
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 16 October 2037 at 00:15
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 466 / 1419
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 466 of Meeus index or 1419 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
Length of current 466 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 20 minutes shorter than next lunation 467 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 34 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠354.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠354.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠9.6°. 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 before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 10 September 2037 at 02:13 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 24 September 2037 at 03:44 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 395 825 km
Moon is 395 825 km (245 954 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 418 km (252 536 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 02:02 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 3 October 2037 at 15:23 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 17 September 2037 at 19:36 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.547°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.695° in the next northern standstill on 2 October 2037 at 13:57 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 24 September 2037 at 11:32 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.