Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 95% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 95% and growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 5 days on 11 September 2089 at 18:01.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1910".
Harvest Moon after 2 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2089 after 2 days on 19 September 2089 at 21:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2089 at 21:55
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 September 2089 at 09:15
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 October 2089 at 01:15
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 October 2089 at 11:22
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 1109 / 2062
The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1109 of Meeus index or 2062 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 17 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠19.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠38.1°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 15 September 2089 at 19:18 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 October 2089 at 16:29 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 659 km
The Moon is 404 659 km (251 443 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 744 km (226 020 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 6 September 2089 at 11:05 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 20 September 2089 at 20:20 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
11 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
5 days since the previous standstill on 12 September 2089 at 09:44 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.244°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.219° at the point of next northern standstill on 26 September 2089 at 20:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 19 September 2089 at 21:55 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.
