Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 24% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 26 November 2019 at 15:06.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1798"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1946".
Cold Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2019 after 10 days on 12 December 2019 at 05:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 4 December 2019 at 06:58
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 12 December 2019 at 05:12
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 19 December 2019 at 04:57
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 26 December 2019 at 05:13
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 246 / 1199
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 246 of Meeus index or 1199 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 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 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠50.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠50.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠82.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 23 November 2019 at 07:54 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 December 2019 at 04:09 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 398 554 km
The Moon is 398 554 km (247 650 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 447 km (251 312 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 29 November 2019 at 04:13 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 December 2019 at 14:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 29 November 2019 at 10:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.200°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.226° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 December 2019 at 20:57 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 12 December 2019 at 05:12 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.
