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

Waxing Crescent in Libra

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% 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 ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 12 September 2083 at 00:07.

Harvest Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2083 after 11 days on 25 September 2083 at 23:25.

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 ∠1944"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1908".

Lunation 1035 / 1988

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1035 of Meeus index or 1988 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes and it is 24 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠299.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠299.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 3 September 2083 at 22:33 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 September 2083 at 04:05 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 368 792 km

The Moon is 368 792 km (229 157 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 109 km (228 732 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 8 September 2083 at 21:09 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 September 2083 at 18:27 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 5 September 2083 at 03:16 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.867° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.778° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 September 2083 at 12:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 25 September 2083 at 23:25 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