Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 79% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 79% and growing larger. The 10 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 18 September 2083 at 18:56.
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 ∠1930"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1912".
Harvest Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2083 after 4 days on 25 September 2083 at 23:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 25 September 2083 at 23:25
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 4 October 2083 at 01:07
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 11 October 2083 at 10:23
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 October 2083 at 01:54
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 1035 / 1988
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 1035 of Meeus index or 1988 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 24 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠299.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠299.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 16 September 2083 at 04:05 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 October 2083 at 17:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 371 385 km
The Moon is 371 385 km (230 768 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 806 km (251 535 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 18:27 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 6 October 2083 at 02:37 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 18:27 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 18 September 2083 at 12:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.778°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.664° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 October 2083 at 11:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 25 September 2083 at 23:25 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.
