Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 18% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 7 October 2010 at 18:44.
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 ∠8° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1878"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1878" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2010 after 11 days on 23 October 2010 at 01:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 October 2010 at 21:27
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 23 October 2010 at 01:36
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 October 2010 at 12:46
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 6 November 2010 at 04:52
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 133 / 1086
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 133 of Meeus index or 1086 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.42 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 7 minutes. It is 2 hours and 37 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠20.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠20.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.7°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 October 2010 at 18:18 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 381 651 km
The Moon is 381 651 km (237 147 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 433 km (251 924 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 1 October 2010 at 02:42 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 October 2010 at 15:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous 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.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 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.
