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 36% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 passing about ∠18° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 19 June 2088 at 01:54.

Buck Moon after 9 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2088 after 9 days on 3 July 2088 at 23:22.

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 ∠1882"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1888".

Lunation 1094 / 2047

The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1094 of Meeus index or 2047 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.28 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes and it is 52 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2088. 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 5 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠3.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠3.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.9°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 18 June 2088 at 20:56 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 July 2088 at 03:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 380 847 km

The Moon is 380 847 km (236 647 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 181 km (252 389 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 15 June 2088 at 12:42 in ♉ Taurus 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 28 June 2088 at 05:57 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 18 June 2088 at 14:44 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.431° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.425° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 July 2088 at 04:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 3 July 2088 at 23:22 in ♑ Capricorn 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