Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 73% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 73% 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 4 October 2049 at 09:39.
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 ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1920".
Hunter Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2049 after 4 days on 11 October 2049 at 02:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 October 2049 at 02:53
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 18 October 2049 at 17:55
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 October 2049 at 16:15
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2049 at 16:19
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 615 / 1568
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 615 of Meeus index or 1568 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes. It is 49 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠241.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠241.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.3°.
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of apogee on 22 September 2049 at 00:05 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 October 2049 at 21:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 363 348 km
The Moon is 363 348 km (225 774 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 276 km (227 593 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 1 October 2049 at 11:18 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 October 2049 at 06:20 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 2 October 2049 at 17:46 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.422°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.344° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 October 2049 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 11 October 2049 at 02:53 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.
