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Waxing Gibbous
on 2 October 2009
Friday
Moon phase on 2 October 2009 Friday is
Waxing Gibbous, 13 days young Moon is in
Pisces.

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Moon phase for 2 October

2009 Friday 12:00 UTC

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Waxing Gibbous phase

Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific
Visualization Studio.

Waxing Gibbous 97%

illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on 2 October
2009, Friday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of
the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger. The 13
days young Moon is in Pisces.

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Moon phase and lunation

details

6 days after First Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before
6 days on 26 September 2009 at 04:50.

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 ∠19° of Pisces tropical
zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1803"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1803" and ∠1918".

Hunter Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2009
after 1 day on 4 October 2009 at 06:10.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Full Moon in Aries after 1 day on

4 October 2009 at 06:10

Last Quarter in Cancer after 8 days on

11 October 2009 at 08:56

New Moon in Libra after 15 days on

18 October 2009 at 05:33

First Quarter in Aquarius after 23 days on

26 October 2009 at 00:42

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 120 / 1073

The Moon is 13 days young. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the first to the middle part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 120 of Meeus index or
1073 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.45

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and
49 minutes. It is 2 hours and 52 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
55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month
length. It is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer compared
to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 2

October 2009 Friday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 39.3°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠39.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the
true anomaly is going to be ∠65.2°.

Moon after apogee

4 days after point of apogee on 28 September 2009
at 03:33 in Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting
narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It
will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the
Moon reaches the point of next perigee on
13 October 2009 at 12:28 in Leo.

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Distance to Moon 397 507 km

The Moon is 397 507 km (246 999 mi) away from
Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until
the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going
to be 369 068 km (229 328 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 28 September 2009
at 06:52 in Capricorn. The Moon is located north
of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar
orbit crosses from North to South in descending node
on 11 October 2009 at 23:01 in Cancer.

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Draconic month
4 days since the beginning of current draconic month
in Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the
beginning to the first part of the cycle.

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Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the previous standstill on
25 September 2009 at 04:03 in Sagittarius when
the Moon has reached South declination of
∠-26.188°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over
the next 6 days to face maximum declination of
∠26.057° at the point of next northern standstill on
9 October 2009 at 09:49 in Gemini.

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Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 4 October 2009 at 06:10 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.

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fl Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary
Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak,
 www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space

Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio,
 svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

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