Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 8% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 27 December 2008 at 12:23.
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 passing about ∠12° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1793"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2009 after 11 days on 11 January 2009 at 03:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 4 January 2009 at 11:56
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 11 January 2009 at 03:27
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 January 2009 at 02:46
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 26 January 2009 at 07:55
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 111 / 1064
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 111 of Meeus index or 1064 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
Length of current 111 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 33 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2008. It is 1 hour and 53 minutes longer than next lunation 112 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 49 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 14 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠186.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠186.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠213.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 26 December 2008 at 17:50 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 January 2009 at 10:52 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 399 688 km
Moon is 399 688 km (248 355 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 501 km (222 141 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 07:40 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet descending node on 12 January 2009 at 08:34 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 07:40 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 26 December 2008 at 08:03 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.026°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.060° in the next northern standstill on 9 January 2009 at 05:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 11 January 2009 at 03:27 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.