Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 5% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 12 November 2004 at 14:27.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1940".
Beaver Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2004 after 12 days on 26 November 2004 at 20:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 19 November 2004 at 05:50
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 26 November 2004 at 20:07
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 5 December 2004 at 00:53
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 December 2004 at 01:29
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 60 / 1013
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 60 of Meeus index or 1013 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 2 minutes. It is 28 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 1 hour and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠327.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠327.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:54. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 2 November 2004 at 18:09 in ♋ Cancer. 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 November 2004 at 11:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 362 313 km
This perigee Moon is 362 313 km (225 131 mi) away from Earth. It is 195 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 043 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 11 November 2004 at 07:43 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 November 2004 at 04:05 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 2 November 2004 at 01:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.042°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.013° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 November 2004 at 14:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 26 November 2004 at 20:07 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.
