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 10% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 26 October 2068 at 04:17.

Beaver Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2068 after 10 days on 9 November 2068 at 11:40.

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 ∠1835"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1835" and ∠1933".

Lunation 851 / 1804

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 851 of Meeus index or 1804 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 25 minutes and it is 1 hour and 23 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 4 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠209.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠209.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠241.5°.

Moon after apogee

6 days since point of apogee on 23 October 2068 at 04:48 in ♍ Virgo 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 7 November 2068 at 20:44 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 390 582 km

The Moon is 390 582 km (242 696 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 864 km (224 230 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 27 October 2068 at 18:44 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 November 2068 at 19:59 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon at southern standstill

At 20:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-20.659°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠20.651° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 11 November 2068 at 15:07.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 9 November 2068 at 11:40 in ♉ Taurus 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