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Waxing Gibbous
on 5 July 2009
Sunday

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Moon phase for 5 July

Moon phase on 5 July 2009 Sunday is Waxing
2009 13Sunday
Gibbous, 12:00
days young Moon UTC
is in Sagittarius.

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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 5 July
2009, Sunday. Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction
of the Moon surface is 97% and growing larger.
The 13 days young Moon is in Sagittarius.

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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 29 June 2009 at 11:28.

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 Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of Sagittarius
tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter

∠ 1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than
solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular
diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1887".

Buck Moon after 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2009 after
1 day on 7 July 2009 at 09:21.

Upcoming main Moon phases

Full Moon in Capricorn after 1 day on

7 July 2009 at 09:21

Last Quarter in Aries after 9 days on

15 July 2009 at 09:53

New Moon in Cancer after 16 days on

22 July 2009 at 02:35

First Quarter in Libra after 23 days on

28 July 2009 at 22:00

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 117 / 1070

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 117 of Meeus index
or 1070 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.29

days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and
1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month
of 2009. It is 27 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 5 hours
and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic
month length. It is 25 minutes longer compared to
21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on 5

July 2009 Sunday
12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠ 349.4°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true
anomaly is ∠349.4°. At the beginning of next
synodic month the true anomaly is going to be
∠4.5°.

Moon before perigee

12 days after point of perigee on 23 June 2009 at
10:39 in Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting
widen, while the Moon is moving away from the
Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days,
until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on
7 July 2009 at 21:39 in Capricorn.

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Distance to Moon 402 990 km

The Moon is 402 990 km (250 406 mi) away from
Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until
the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is
going to be 406 233 km (252 421 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 24 June 2009 at
17:24 in Cancer. The Moon is located south of
the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar
orbit crosses from South to North in ascending
node on 8 July 2009 at 15:24 in Capricorn.

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Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic
month in Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from
the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon at southern standstill

At 07:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to
reach South declination of ∠-26.460°. Over the
next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend
northward to face maximum declination of
∠26.477° at the point of next standstill in
Gemini on 19 July 2009 at 13:01.

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Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 7 July 2009 at 09:21 in Capricorn
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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