Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 3% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 14 August 2015 at 14:54.
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 ∠14° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1895".
Sturgeon Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2015 after 13 days on 29 August 2015 at 18:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 22 August 2015 at 19:31
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 August 2015 at 18:35
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 5 September 2015 at 09:54
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 13 September 2015 at 06:41
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 193 / 1146
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 193 of Meeus index or 1146 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠144.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠144.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠169.3°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 2 August 2015 at 10:11 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 August 2015 at 02:33 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 404 699 km
The Moon is 404 699 km (251 468 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 852 km (252 185 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 4 August 2015 at 02:53 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 August 2015 at 23:05 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, 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 10 August 2015 at 11:11 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.288°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.206° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 August 2015 at 03:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 29 August 2015 at 18:35 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.
