Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
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 26 October 2011 at 19:56.
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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2011 after 11 days on 10 November 2011 at 20:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2011 at 16:38
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 November 2011 at 20:16
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 November 2011 at 15:09
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 November 2011 at 06:10
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 146 / 1099
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 146 of Meeus index or 1099 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠5.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠5.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠21.6°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 26 October 2011 at 12:26 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 8 November 2011 at 13:20 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 373 663 km
The Moon is 373 663 km (232 183 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 177 km (252 387 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 29 October 2011 at 14:59 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 13 November 2011 at 00:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 29 October 2011 at 20:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.609°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.558° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 November 2011 at 07:23 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 10 November 2011 at 20:16 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.
