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

Waxing Crescent in Virgo

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ♍ Virgo

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 15 August 2080 at 08:13.

Sturgeon Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2080 after 12 days on 30 August 2080 at 10:41.

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 ∠1935"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1896".

Lunation 997 / 1950

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 997 of Meeus index or 1950 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 11 minutes and it is 2 hours and 8 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠12°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠12° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠29.1°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 14 August 2080 at 15:04 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 August 2080 at 06:54 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 370 426 km

The Moon is 370 426 km (230 172 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 834 km (252 174 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 5 August 2080 at 09:26 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 August 2080 at 02:15 in ♎ Libra.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 11 August 2080 at 20:32 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.549° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.609° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 August 2080 at 19:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 30 August 2080 at 10:41 in ♓ Pisces 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