Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 72% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 72% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 16 September 2056 at 09:50.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1910".
Harvest Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2056 after 5 days on 23 September 2056 at 19:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 23 September 2056 at 19:34
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 1 October 2056 at 23:33
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 9 October 2056 at 03:00
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 15 October 2056 at 17:58
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 701 / 1654
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 701 of Meeus index or 1654 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
Length of current 701 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2056. It is 7 minutes shorter than next lunation 702 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠317.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠317.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠337.6°. 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
6 days after point of perigee on 12 September 2056 at 10:34 in ♎ Libra. 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 28 September 2056 at 07:58 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 373 740 km
Moon is 373 740 km (232 231 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 424 km (251 919 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 05:52 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 2 October 2056 at 15:45 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 17 September 2056 at 16:12 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.234°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.376° in the next northern standstill on 2 October 2056 at 03:51 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 23 September 2056 at 19:34 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.