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Waxing Gibbous on
27 September 2012
Thursday

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Moon phase on 27 September 2012 Thursday is

Waxing Gibbous, 12 days young Moon is in Pisces.

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27 September 2012
Thursday 12:00 UTC

2012 | September 2012

Waxing Gibbous phase

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

Waxing Gibbous 93%

illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on 27
September 2012, Thursday. Seen from Earth,
illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 93% and
growing larger. The 12 days young Moon is in
Pisces.

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Moon phases for next 7 days

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28 29 30* 1 2 3 4

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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 22 September 2012 at 19:41.

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 is entering Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠4° of Pisces tropical zodiac
sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1865"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar
disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are
∠1865" and ∠1915".

Harvest Moon after 2 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September
2012 after 2 days on 30 September 2012 at 03:19.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Full Moon in Aries after 2 days on

30 September 2012 at 03:19

Last Quarter in Cancer after 10 days on

8 October 2012 at 07:33

New Moon in Libra after 18 days on

15 October 2012 at 12:02

First Quarter in Capricorn after 24 days on

22 October 2012 at 03:32

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 157 / 1110

The Moon is 12 days young. Earth's natural satellite is
moving from the first to the middle part of current
synodic month. This is lunation 157 of Meeus index or
1110 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.41

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and
52 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month
of 2012. It is 13 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 2 hours
and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month
length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes longer compared
to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 27

September 2012 Thursday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 312.9°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly
is ∠312.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month
the true anomaly is going to be ∠334.3°.

Moon before perigee

8 days after point of perigee on 19 September 2012
at 02:52 in Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting
widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth.
It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the
Moon reaches the point of next apogee on
5 October 2012 at 00:43 in Gemini.

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Distance to Moon 384 258 km

The Moon is 384 258 km (238 767 mi) away from
Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the
point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to
be 405 162 km (251 756 mi).

Moon before descending node

6 days after ascending node on 20 September 2012
at 12:54 in Scorpio. The Moon is located north of
the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar
orbit crosses from North to South in descending node
on 4 October 2012 at 05:15 in Taurus.

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

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Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the previous standstill on
22 September 2012 at 00:11 in Sagittarius when
the Moon has reached South declination of
∠-21.135°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over
the next 8 days to face maximum declination of
∠21.024° at the point of next northern standstill on
6 October 2012 at 01:40 in Gemini.

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Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 30 September 2012 at 03:19 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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