Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 31% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 31% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 25 November 2011 at 06:10.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1946".
Cold Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2011 after 10 days on 10 December 2011 at 14:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 2 December 2011 at 09:52
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 December 2011 at 14:36
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 December 2011 at 00:48
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 December 2011 at 18:06
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 147 / 1100
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 147 of Meeus index or 1100 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
Length of current 147 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than next lunation 148 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 47 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 22 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠21.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠21.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠42.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of perigee on 23 November 2011 at 23:24 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 6 December 2011 at 01:13 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 389 737 km
Moon is 389 737 km (242 171 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 414 km (251 913 mi).
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 26 November 2011 at 01:02 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 December 2011 at 07:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 26 November 2011 at 06:47 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-22.552°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠22.554° in the next northern standstill on 10 December 2011 at 13:37 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 10 December 2011 at 14:36 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.