Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Leo

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♌ Leo

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 8 July 2013 at 07:14.

Buck Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2013 after 13 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"

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

Lunation 167 / 1120

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 167 of Meeus index or 1120 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.61 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes and it is 51 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠191.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠191.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠216.9°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 7 July 2013 at 00:36 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 July 2013 at 20:27 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 402 997 km

The Moon is 402 997 km (250 411 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 402 km (222 701 mi).

Moon after descending node

6 days after descending node on 3 July 2013 at 04:15 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 17 July 2013 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

3 days since the last northern standstill on 6 July 2013 at 02:09 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.170° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.097° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 July 2013 at 03:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 22 July 2013 at 18:15 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.

Lunar calendar

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