Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 78% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 78% and growing larger. The 10 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 15 October 2056 at 17:58.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1860"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1860" and ∠1927".
Hunter Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2056 after 4 days on 23 October 2056 at 11:46.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 23 October 2056 at 11:46
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 31 October 2056 at 16:12
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 7 November 2056 at 12:20
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 14 November 2056 at 05:33
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 702 / 1655
The Moon is 10 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 702 of Meeus index or 1655 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes. It is 50 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠337.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 10 October 2056 at 11:04 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 October 2056 at 20:58 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 385 372 km
The Moon is 385 372 km (239 459 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 235 km (252 423 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 15 October 2056 at 06:24 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 October 2056 at 17:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 14 October 2056 at 21:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.495°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.641° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 October 2056 at 11:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 23 October 2056 at 11:46 in ♉ Taurus 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.
