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 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 23 November 2079 at 11:29.

Cold Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2079 after 14 days on 8 December 2079 at 15:16.

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 ∠1774"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1944".

Lunation 988 / 1941

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 988 of Meeus index or 1941 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.79 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 2 minutes and it is 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠148.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠148.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠174.6°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 10 November 2079 at 21:38 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 November 2079 at 15:51 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 404 022 km

The Moon is 404 022 km (251 048 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 258 km (252 437 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 20 November 2079 at 06:11 in ♎ Libra 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 4 December 2079 at 19:50 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 12 November 2079 at 08:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.320° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.260° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 November 2079 at 04:46 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 14 days

In 14 days on 8 December 2079 at 15:16 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