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

Waxing Crescent in Capricorn

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 1% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 15 December 2077 at 10:06.

Cold Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2077 after 12 days on 29 December 2077 at 10:45.

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 ∠1857"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1857" and ∠1950".

Lunation 964 / 1917

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 964 of Meeus index or 1917 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours 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 2 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠258.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠258.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠294.9°.

Moon after apogee

7 days since point of apogee on 9 December 2077 at 10:56 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 December 2077 at 02:40 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 386 033 km

The Moon is 386 033 km (239 870 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 754 km (229 133 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 13 December 2077 at 09:35 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 December 2077 at 14:03 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon at southern standstill

At 13:36 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.467°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.449° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 29 December 2077 at 11:30.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 29 December 2077 at 10:45 in ♋ Cancer 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