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

Waxing Crescent in Libra

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ♎ Libra

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 8 October 2067 at 09:28.

Hunter Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2067 after 12 days on 22 October 2067 at 10:56.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1832"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1832" and ∠1921".

Lunation 838 / 1791

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 838 of Meeus index or 1791 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.62 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 46 minutes and it is 55 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠237.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠237.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.8°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 3 October 2067 at 12:21 in ♌ Leo 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 2067 at 10:41 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 391 286 km

The Moon is 391 286 km (243 134 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 700 km (227 235 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 28 September 2067 at 09:08 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 October 2067 at 20:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 28 September 2067 at 17:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.519° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.403° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 October 2067 at 06:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 22 October 2067 at 10:56 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