Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and growing larger. The 11 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 25 September 2039 at 04:53.
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 ∠18° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1924"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1915".
Hunter Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2039 after 3 days on 2 October 2039 at 07:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 2 October 2039 at 07:23
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 10 October 2039 at 08:59
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 17 October 2039 at 19:09
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2039 at 11:50
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 491 / 1444
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 491 of Meeus index or 1444 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 491 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 46 minutes. It is 9 minutes longer than next lunation 492 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 58 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 11 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠294.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠294.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠321.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 23 September 2039 at 02:18 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 October 2039 at 10:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 372 531 km
Moon is 372 531 km (231 480 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 575 km (251 391 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 24 September 2039 at 01:47 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 7 October 2039 at 15:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 25 September 2039 at 19:27 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.118°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.247° in the next northern standstill on 9 October 2039 at 20:04 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 2 October 2039 at 07:23 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.