Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and growing larger. The 10 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 10 September 2062 at 15:59.
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 ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1907".
Harvest Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2062 after 5 days on 18 September 2062 at 18:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2062 at 18:36
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2062 at 00:11
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 2 October 2062 at 18:49
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 10 October 2062 at 10:27
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 775 / 1728
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 775 of Meeus index or 1728 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
Length of current 775 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 36 minutes shorter than next lunation 776 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 32 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠31.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠31.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠54.6°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 08:35, this is 11 days after last perigee on 1 September 2062 at 10:35 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 29 September 2062 at 03:19 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 840 km
This apogee Moon is 404 840 km (251 556 mi) away from Earth. It is 568 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 869 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 4 September 2062 at 03:11 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 18 September 2062 at 11:25 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 11 September 2062 at 13:11 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.670°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.655° in the next northern standstill on 25 September 2062 at 16:49 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 18 September 2062 at 18:36 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.