Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 18% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 27 August 2003 at 17:26.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2003 after 10 days on 10 September 2003 at 16:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 September 2003 at 12:34
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 September 2003 at 16:36
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 18 September 2003 at 19:03
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 September 2003 at 03:09
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 45 / 998
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 45 of Meeus index or 998 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 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 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠301°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠301°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 18:47. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 19 August 2003 at 14:22 in ♉ Taurus. 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 16 September 2003 at 09:22 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 367 929 km
This perigee Moon is 367 929 km (228 620 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 421 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 427 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 19 August 2003 at 21:08 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 September 2003 at 07:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 23 August 2003 at 11:41 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.649°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.746° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 September 2003 at 11:54 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 10 September 2003 at 16:36 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.
