Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 21% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 21% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 10 July 2002 at 10:26.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2002 after 9 days on 24 July 2002 at 09:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 July 2002 at 04:47
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 July 2002 at 09:07
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 1 August 2002 at 10:22
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 8 August 2002 at 19:15
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.
Lunation 31 / 984
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 31 of Meeus index or 984 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes. It is 54 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠300.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠300.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠324.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:13. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 2 July 2002 at 07:35 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 30 July 2002 at 01:45 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 367 853 km
This perigee Moon is 367 853 km (228 573 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 345 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 503 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 8 July 2002 at 04:15 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 July 2002 at 00:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 9 July 2002 at 22:03 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.045°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.053° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 July 2002 at 19:08 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 24 July 2002 at 09:07 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
