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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 13 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 27 September 2055 at 18:11.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2055 after 1 day on 5 October 2055 at 18:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 5 October 2055 at 18:38
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 13 October 2055 at 18:22
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 20 October 2055 at 10:49
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 October 2055 at 07:53
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 689 / 1642
The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 689 of Meeus index or 1642 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
Length of current 689 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes shorter than next lunation 690 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 55 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠352.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠352.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠7.9°. 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
12 days after point of perigee on 21 September 2055 at 12:32 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 5 October 2055 at 17:59 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 404 816 km
Moon is 404 816 km (251 541 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 450 km (252 556 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 30 September 2055 at 10:30 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 15 October 2055 at 00:14 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 28 September 2055 at 05:09 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-20.612°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠20.758° in the next northern standstill on 13 October 2055 at 00:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 5 October 2055 at 18:38 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.