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Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 99% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 99% and growing larger. The 14 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 7 days on 21 September 2099 at 09:48.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1915".
Harvest Moon after 1 day
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2099 after 1 day on 29 September 2099 at 10:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 29 September 2099 at 10:45
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 7 October 2099 at 09:21
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 14 October 2099 at 01:32
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 20 October 2099 at 23:27
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 1233 / 2186
The Moon is 14 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1233 of Meeus index or 2186 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 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 4 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠355.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠355.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 22:34. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 14 September 2099 at 23:26 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next perigee on 13 October 2099 at 10:26 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 406 272 km
This apogee Moon is 406 272 km (252 446 mi) away from Earth. It is 864 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 437 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 14:28 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 12 October 2099 at 10:42 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 14:28 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 21 September 2099 at 11:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.686°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.657° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 October 2099 at 05:56 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 29 September 2099 at 10:45 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.
