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

Waxing Crescent in Scorpio

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 31% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 20 August 2085 at 09:10.

Harvest Moon after 8 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2085 after 8 days on 4 September 2085 at 00:41.

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 ∠1841"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1841" and ∠1899".

Lunation 1059 / 2012

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1059 of Meeus index or 2012 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.66 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes and it is 3 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2085. 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 3 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠180.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠180.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠204.1°.

Moon after apogee

6 days since point of apogee on 20 August 2085 at 08:35 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 September 2085 at 13:43 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 389 402 km

The Moon is 389 402 km (241 963 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 232 km (221 974 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 15 August 2085 at 13:51 in ♊ Gemini 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 30 August 2085 at 02:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 14 August 2085 at 14:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.995° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.865° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 August 2085 at 08:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 4 September 2085 at 00:41 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