Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 16 October 2037 at 00:15.
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 ∠11° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1803" and ∠1926".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2037 after 6 days on 24 October 2037 at 04:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 October 2037 at 04:36
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 31 October 2037 at 21:06
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 7 November 2037 at 12:03
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 14 November 2037 at 17:59
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 467 / 1420
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 467 of Meeus index or 1420 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 29 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 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 3 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠9.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠9.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠26.3°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 8 October 2037 at 13:04 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 October 2037 at 07:33 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 397 560 km
The Moon is 397 560 km (247 032 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 008 km (252 282 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 16 October 2037 at 03:12 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 October 2037 at 16:21 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 15 October 2037 at 02:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.804°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.956° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2037 at 20:04 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 24 October 2037 at 04:36 in ♉ Taurus 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.
