Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 19% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 19% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 22 November 2014 at 12:32.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1955"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1944".
Cold Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2014 after 10 days on 6 December 2014 at 12:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 29 November 2014 at 10:06
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 6 December 2014 at 12:27
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 14 December 2014 at 12:51
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 December 2014 at 01:36
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 184 / 1137
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 184 of Meeus index or 1137 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 4 minutes. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer 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 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠289.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠289.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 15 November 2014 at 01:56 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 November 2014 at 23:11 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 366 627 km
The Moon is 366 627 km (227 811 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 825 km (229 799 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 19 November 2014 at 08:18 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 2 December 2014 at 08:32 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 24 November 2014 at 08:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.625°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.660° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 December 2014 at 09:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 6 December 2014 at 12:27 in ♊ Gemini 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.
