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 4% 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 9 November 2083 at 20:15.

Beaver Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2083 after 12 days on 24 November 2083 at 08:23.

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 ∠1973"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1938".

Lunation 1037 / 1990

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1037 of Meeus index or 1990 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.42 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 10 minutes and it is 42 minutes shorter 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 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠343.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠343.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠359.3°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 10 November 2083 at 19:25 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 November 2083 at 20:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 363 328 km

The Moon is 363 328 km (225 762 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 373 km (252 508 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 2 November 2083 at 04:57 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 14 November 2083 at 20:37 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 29 October 2083 at 17:47 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.436° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.371° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 November 2083 at 02:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 24 November 2083 at 08:23 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