Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 68% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 68% 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 8 October 2054 at 13:19.
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 ∠9° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2054 after 6 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 16 October 2054 at 17:44
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 October 2054 at 02:39
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 October 2054 at 20:01
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 November 2054 at 08:34
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 677 / 1630
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 677 of Meeus index or 1630 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes. It is 2 hours and 20 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 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠23.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠23.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠44°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 29 September 2054 at 23:51 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 403 728 km
The Moon is 403 728 km (250 865 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 118 km (251 729 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 28 September 2054 at 16:44 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 7 October 2054 at 22:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.290°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.417° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 October 2054 at 10:52 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44 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.
