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

Waxing Crescent in Libra

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 12% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♎ Libra

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 4 September 2032 at 20:57.

Harvest Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2032 after 10 days on 19 September 2032 at 09:30.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1808"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1905".

Lunation 404 / 1357

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 404 of Meeus index or 1357 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.69 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes and it is 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2032. 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 3 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠189.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠189.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.1°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 3 September 2032 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2032 at 14:05 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 396 519 km

The Moon is 396 519 km (246 385 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 032 km (222 471 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 21:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 21 September 2032 at 16:10 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 29 August 2032 at 03:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.299° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.181° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 September 2032 at 21:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.

New draconic month

At 21:41 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 19 September 2032 at 09:30 in ♓ Pisces 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