Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 64% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 64% and growing larger. The 9 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 1 day on 8 October 2073 at 01:56.
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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon after 6 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2073 after 6 days on 16 October 2073 at 01:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 16 October 2073 at 01:54
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 October 2073 at 02:22
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 October 2073 at 19:13
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 November 2073 at 15:42
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 912 / 1865
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 912 of Meeus index or 1865 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
Length of current 912 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter than next lunation 913 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 17 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠351.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠351.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠6.3°. 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 before apogee
7 days after point of perigee on 1 October 2073 at 22:53 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 16 October 2073 at 08:16 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 386 647 km
Moon is 386 647 km (240 251 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 473 km (252 571 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 28 September 2073 at 04:00 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 October 2073 at 18:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 7 October 2073 at 14:29 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.779°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.918° in the next northern standstill on 22 October 2073 at 08:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 16 October 2073 at 01:54 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.