Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 2% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 2% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 26 July 2014 at 22:42.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1890".
Sturgeon Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2014 after 13 days on 10 August 2014 at 18:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 August 2014 at 00:50
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 10 August 2014 at 18:09
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 17 August 2014 at 12:26
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 August 2014 at 14:13
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 180 / 1133
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 180 of Meeus index or 1133 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes. It is 30 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠169.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠169.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 03:27. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 13 July 2014 at 08:27 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next perigee on 10 August 2014 at 17:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 406 570 km
This apogee Moon is 406 570 km (252 631 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2014. It is 1 162 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 139 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 18 July 2014 at 21:21 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 August 2014 at 11:26 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 23 July 2014 at 15:36 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.934°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.827° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 August 2014 at 04:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 10 August 2014 at 18:09 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
