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

Waxing Crescent in Sagittarius

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 days 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 in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 4 October 2051 at 20:47.

Hunter Moon after 9 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2051 after 9 days on 19 October 2051 at 19:13.

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 ∠1802"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1802" and ∠1922".

Lunation 640 / 1593

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 640 of Meeus index or 1593 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.76 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes and it is 26 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠163.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠163.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.8°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 6 October 2051 at 15:34 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 October 2051 at 22:41 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 397 791 km

The Moon is 397 791 km (247 176 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 809 km (221 711 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 5 October 2051 at 20:55 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 October 2051 at 14:46 in ♈ Aries.

Moon at southern standstill

At 22:36 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.669°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2051. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.671° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 23 October 2051 at 15:33.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 19 October 2051 at 19:13 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.

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