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

Waxing Crescent in Capricorn

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 2 December 2070 at 16:53.

Cold Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2070 after 11 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05.

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 ∠1778"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1948".

Lunation 877 / 1830

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 877 of Meeus index or 1830 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 22 minutes and it is 22 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2070. 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 6 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠163.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠163.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠187.9°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 4 December 2070 at 13:36 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 December 2070 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 403 163 km

The Moon is 403 163 km (250 514 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 442 km (221 483 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 28 November 2070 at 03:19 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 December 2070 at 18:04 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 4 December 2070 at 00:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.543° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.546° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 December 2070 at 17:05 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

8 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 11 days

In 11 days on 17 December 2070 at 16:05 in ♊ Gemini 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