Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 11% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1890".
Sturgeon Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2014 after 11 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
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 180 / 1133
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 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 after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 28 July 2014 at 03:27 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 August 2014 at 17:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 402 598 km
The Moon is 402 598 km (250 163 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 897 km (221 766 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 18 July 2014 at 21:21 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 August 2014 at 11:26 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
24 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
6 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 7 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 11 days
In 11 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.
