Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Gibbous in Pisces

Waxing Gibbous on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 99% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 14 days young.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 6 days on 12 September 2070 at 13:44.

Harvest Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2070 after 1 day on 20 September 2070 at 07:47.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1863"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1863" and ∠1911".

Lunation 874 / 1827

The Moon is 14 days young and navigating from the first to the middle part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 874 of Meeus index or 1827 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.52 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 33 minutes and it is 3 hours and 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠66.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠66.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.2°.

Moon before perigee

6 days since point of apogee on 12 September 2070 at 12:02 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 September 2070 at 22:02 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 384 658 km

The Moon is 384 658 km (239 015 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 697 km (229 098 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 7 September 2070 at 08:29 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 September 2070 at 16:24 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 13 September 2070 at 00:50 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.435° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.394° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 September 2070 at 13:29 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 20 September 2070 at 07:47 in ♓ Pisces 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov