Waxing
Gibbous ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 88% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 88% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 4 days on 20 October 2099 at 23:27.
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 ∠22° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1930".
Hunter Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2099 after 3 days on 29 October 2099 at 04:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 29 October 2099 at 04:20
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 November 2099 at 19:42
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 November 2099 at 11:29
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 19 November 2099 at 17:17
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 1234 / 2187
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1234 of Meeus index or 2187 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 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 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠10.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠10.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠27.7°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 13 October 2099 at 10:26 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 October 2099 at 03:06 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 405 033 km
The Moon is 405 033 km (251 676 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 825 km (252 168 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 20:01 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 8 November 2099 at 18:31 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 20:01 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 18 October 2099 at 19:06 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.609°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.524° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 November 2099 at 11:20 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 29 October 2099 at 04:20 in ♉ Taurus 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.
