Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 9% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 8 January 2008 at 11:37.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1881"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1881" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2008 after 11 days on 22 January 2008 at 13:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 15 January 2008 at 19:46
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 January 2008 at 13:35
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 30 January 2008 at 05:03
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 7 February 2008 at 03:44
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 99 / 1052
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 99 of Meeus index or 1052 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 37 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠242.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠242.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠280°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 3 January 2008 at 08:06 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 January 2008 at 08:39 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 381 157 km
The Moon is 381 157 km (236 840 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 436 km (227 693 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 15:17 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 24 January 2008 at 10:49 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 15:17 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 6 January 2008 at 15:50 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.939°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.985° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 January 2008 at 23:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 22 January 2008 at 13:35 in ♋ Cancer 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.
