Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
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 10 October 2100 at 08:33.
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 ∠10° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1823"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon after 3 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2100 after 3 days on 18 October 2100 at 04:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 October 2100 at 04:06
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 October 2100 at 07:19
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 November 2100 at 03:14
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 November 2100 at 20:15
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 1246 / 2199
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 1246 of Meeus index or 2199 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2100. It is 34 minutes shorter 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 3 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠340.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠340.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356.4°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 4 October 2100 at 21:58 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 October 2100 at 04:03 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 393 144 km
The Moon is 393 144 km (244 288 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 359 km (252 500 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 06:36 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 28 October 2100 at 20:12 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 06:36 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 8 October 2100 at 20:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.233°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.129° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 October 2100 at 08:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 18 October 2100 at 04:06 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.
