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

Waxing Crescent in Virgo

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 20% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 4 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 ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 9 July 2059 at 17:58.

Buck Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2059 after 10 days on 25 July 2059 at 02:24.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".

Lunation 736 / 1689

The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 736 of Meeus index or 1689 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.57 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 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 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠119.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠119.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠149.3°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 18:59 about 15 days since last perigee on 29 June 2059 at 00:49 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 26 July 2059 at 20:05 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 405 149 km

This apogee Moon is 405 149 km (251 748 mi) away from Earth. It is 259 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 560 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 5 July 2059 at 17:49 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 July 2059 at 05:06 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 9 July 2059 at 00:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.603° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.645° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 July 2059 at 10:35 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 25 July 2059 at 02:24 in ♒ Aquarius 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