Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 15 October 2067 at 18:03.
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 passing about ∠16° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1927".
Hunter Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2067 after 2 days on 22 October 2067 at 10:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 22 October 2067 at 10:56
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 October 2067 at 01:08
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 7 November 2067 at 00:14
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 14 November 2067 at 01:07
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 838 / 1791
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 838 of Meeus index or 1791 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 46 minutes. It is 55 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠237.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠237.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 10:41. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 3 October 2067 at 12:21 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 31 October 2067 at 06:44 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 365 700 km
This perigee Moon is 365 700 km (227 235 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 192 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 656 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
6 days after ascending node on 12 October 2067 at 20:11 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 October 2067 at 14:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 13 October 2067 at 06:21 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.403°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.333° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 October 2067 at 02:13 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 22 October 2067 at 10:56 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.
