Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 14 July 2007 at 12:04.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1888".
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2007 after 9 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48.
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.
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 93 of Meeus index or 1046 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠64.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠97.3°.
10 days after point of perigee on 9 July 2007 at 21:38 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 July 2007 at 08:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
The Moon is 403 728 km (250 865 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 152 km (251 128 mi).
2 days after descending node on 18 July 2007 at 00:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 August 2007 at 06:03 in ♓ Pisces.
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
7 days since the previous standstill on 12 July 2007 at 16:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.251°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.300° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 July 2007 at 23:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 9 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48 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.