Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 32% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 32% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 27 September 2011 at 11:09.
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 ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1927"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1917".
Hunter Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2011 after 9 days on 12 October 2011 at 02:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 October 2011 at 03:15
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 12 October 2011 at 02:06
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 20 October 2011 at 03:30
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 October 2011 at 19:56
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 145 / 1098
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 145 of Meeus index or 1098 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 47 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 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 3 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠350.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠350.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠5.3°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 28 September 2011 at 01:01 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 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 October 2011 at 11:43 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 372 008 km
The Moon is 372 008 km (231 155 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 435 km (252 547 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 09:09 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 16 October 2011 at 21:01 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 09:09 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 11:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-22.791°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠22.665° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 17 October 2011 at 02:06.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 12 October 2011 at 02:06 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.
