Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Scorpio

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 10% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 7 October 2010 at 18:44.

Hunter Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2010 after 12 days on 23 October 2010 at 01:36.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1902"

Lunar disc appears visually 1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1902" and ∠1922".

Lunation 133 / 1086

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 133 of Meeus index or 1086 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.42 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 7 minutes and it is 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠20.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠20.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.7°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 6 October 2010 at 13:41 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 October 2010 at 18:18 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 376 815 km

The Moon is 376 815 km (234 142 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 433 km (251 924 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 1 October 2010 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 13 October 2010 at 15:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 29 September 2010 at 17:37 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.555° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.457° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 October 2010 at 07:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 23 October 2010 at 01:36 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov