Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 35% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 35% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1827"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1827" and ∠1891".
Sturgeon Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2014 after 8 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 6 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
5 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 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 August 2014 at 17:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 392 270 km
The Moon is 392 270 km (243 745 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 897 km (221 766 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 11:26 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 15 August 2014 at 00:18 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 11:26 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
9 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 4 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 8 days
In 8 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.
