Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 70% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 70% and growing larger. The 9 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 12 October 2070 at 08:40.
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 passing about ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1808"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2070 after 5 days on 19 October 2070 at 18:59.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 19 October 2070 at 18:59
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 October 2070 at 10:47
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 November 2070 at 22:42
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2070 at 03:20
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 875 / 1828
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 875 of Meeus index or 1828 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠100.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠100.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠134.9°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 10 October 2070 at 07:45 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 October 2070 at 03:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 396 484 km
The Moon is 396 484 km (246 364 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 541 km (225 894 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 4 October 2070 at 16:29 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 19 October 2070 at 01:49 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 10 October 2070 at 08:55 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.377°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.400° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 October 2070 at 19:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 19 October 2070 at 18:59 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.
