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

Waxing Crescent in Sagittarius

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 10% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 2 November 2089 at 12:55.

Beaver Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2089 after 12 days on 18 November 2089 at 03:02.

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 ∠1818"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1818" and ∠1936".

Lunation 1111 / 2064

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1111 of Meeus index or 2064 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 28 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠64.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠64.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99°.

Moon before apogee

7 days since point of perigee on 28 October 2089 at 23:05 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 November 2089 at 07:48 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 394 356 km

The Moon is 394 356 km (245 041 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 280 km (251 208 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 31 October 2089 at 06:06 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 November 2089 at 10:59 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 24 October 2089 at 02:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.262° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.316° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 November 2089 at 03:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 18 November 2089 at 03:02 in ♉ Taurus 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