Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 25% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 25% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 16 October 2001 at 19:23.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1833"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1833" and ∠1928".
Beaver Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2001 after 10 days on 1 November 2001 at 05:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2001 at 02:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 1 November 2001 at 05:41
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 8 November 2001 at 12:21
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 15 November 2001 at 06:40
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 22 / 975
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 22 of Meeus index or 975 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 22 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 17 minutes. It is 2 hours and 50 minutes shorter than next lunation 23 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 27 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 42 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠30.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠30.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠53.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of perigee on 14 October 2001 at 23:02 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 26 October 2001 at 20:12 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 391 087 km
Moon is 391 087 km (243 010 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 937 km (251 616 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 13:22 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 4 November 2001 at 23:58 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 9 October 2001 at 18:46 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠23.937°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.041° in the next southern standstill on 22 October 2001 at 13:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 1 November 2001 at 05:41 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.