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

Waxing Crescent in Pisces

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 28 December 2054 at 23:52.

Wolf Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2055 after 10 days on 13 January 2055 at 11:21.

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 ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1951".

Lunation 680 / 1633

The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 680 of Meeus index or 1633 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.74 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 47 minutes and it is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠109.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠109.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠143.9°.

Moon before apogee

14 days since point of perigee on 18 December 2054 at 16:08 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 January 2055 at 13:48 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 405 189 km

The Moon is 405 189 km (251 773 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 985 km (251 646 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 1 January 2055 at 10:10 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 January 2055 at 05:53 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 29 December 2054 at 03:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.763° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.742° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 January 2055 at 12:37 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 13 January 2055 at 11:21 in ♋ Cancer 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