Waxing
Gibbous ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 76% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 76% and growing larger. The 10 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 13 September 2097 at 14:22.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1909".
Harvest Moon after 5 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2097 after 5 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 21 September 2097 at 13:00
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 28 September 2097 at 13:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 5 October 2097 at 11:45
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 13 October 2097 at 09:35
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 1208 / 2161
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 1208 of Meeus index or 2161 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 11 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 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠47.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠47.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.4°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 14 September 2097 at 20:28 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 September 2097 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 404 386 km
The Moon is 404 386 km (251 274 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 864 km (229 823 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 9 September 2097 at 17:26 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 September 2097 at 02:09 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 14 September 2097 at 18:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.835°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.911° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 September 2097 at 13:01 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00 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.
