Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 33% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 33% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 29 September 2008 at 08:12.
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 ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1919".
Hunter Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2008 after 9 days on 14 October 2008 at 20:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 7 October 2008 at 09:04
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 14 October 2008 at 20:03
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 October 2008 at 11:55
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 28 October 2008 at 23:14
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 108 / 1061
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 108 of Meeus index or 1061 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 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°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠98.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠98.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠133.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 10:34. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 20 September 2008 at 03:17 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 17 October 2008 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 716 km
This apogee Moon is 404 716 km (251 479 mi) away from Earth. It is 692 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 993 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 25 September 2008 at 16:20 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 10 October 2008 at 00:38 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 14:05 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.370°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.270° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 19 October 2008 at 00:21.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 14 October 2008 at 20:03 in ♈ Aries 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.
