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 22% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 20 October 2074 at 11:11.

Beaver Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2074 after 10 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21.

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 ∠1967"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1930".

Lunation 925 / 1878

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 925 of Meeus index or 1878 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠335.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠335.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.3°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 21 October 2074 at 21:56 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 November 2074 at 10:36 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 364 394 km

The Moon is 364 394 km (226 424 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 179 km (252 388 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 14 October 2074 at 00:03 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 October 2074 at 15:21 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 12 October 2074 at 12:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.404° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.522° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2074 at 10:55 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21 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