Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 13% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 13% and growing larger. The 3 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 6 November 2010 at 04:52.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1937".
Beaver Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2010 after 12 days on 21 November 2010 at 17:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 13 November 2010 at 16:39
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 November 2010 at 17:27
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 28 November 2010 at 20:36
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 December 2010 at 17:36
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.
Lunation 134 / 1087
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 134 of Meeus index or 1087 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 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 same as the mean
The length of the current synodic month is equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠39.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠39.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠67°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 3 November 2010 at 17:22 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 November 2010 at 11:47 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 388 320 km
The Moon is 388 320 km (241 291 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 634 km (251 428 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 24 November 2010 at 06:27 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 20:14 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 8 November 2010 at 16:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.281°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.238° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 November 2010 at 04:24 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 21 November 2010 at 17:27 in ♉ Taurus 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.
