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 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 8 November 2094 at 04:42.

Beaver Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2094 after 12 days on 22 November 2094 at 05:27.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1852"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1852" and ∠1938".

Lunation 1173 / 2126

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1173 of Meeus index or 2126 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes and it is 1 hour and 25 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠250.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠250.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠287.7°.

Moon after apogee

6 days since point of apogee on 2 November 2094 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo 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 18 November 2094 at 11:26 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 387 021 km

The Moon is 387 021 km (240 484 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 623 km (228 430 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 27 October 2094 at 23:56 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 November 2094 at 11:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 28 October 2094 at 21:45 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.975° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.067° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 November 2094 at 09:33 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 22 November 2094 at 05:27 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