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 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 4 November 2078 at 16:56.

Beaver Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2078 after 11 days on 19 November 2078 at 12:52.

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 ∠1786"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1937".

Lunation 975 / 1928

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 975 of Meeus index or 1928 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.8 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 12 minutes and it is 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2078. 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 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠172.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠172.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠196.6°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 5 November 2078 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 November 2078 at 08:57 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 401 220 km

The Moon is 401 220 km (249 307 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 690 km (221 637 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 4 November 2078 at 12:25 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 November 2078 at 09:52 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 25 October 2078 at 18:03 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.619° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.622° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 November 2078 at 06:39 in ♑ Capricorn.

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 11 days

In 11 days on 19 November 2078 at 12:52 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