Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 7% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 4 December 2021 at 07:43.
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 passing about ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2021 after 12 days on 19 December 2021 at 04:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 11 December 2021 at 01:36
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 December 2021 at 04:36
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 27 December 2021 at 02:24
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 January 2022 at 18:33
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 271 / 1224
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 271 of Meeus index or 1224 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes. It is 23 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠358.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.9°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 4 December 2021 at 10:01 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 December 2021 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 365 715 km
The Moon is 365 715 km (227 245 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 322 km (252 477 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 3 December 2021 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 December 2021 at 00:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 02:25 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-26.331°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2021. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠26.306° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 20 December 2021 at 04:32.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 19 December 2021 at 04:36 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.
