Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 12% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 25 October 2022 at 10:49.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1952"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1952" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2022 after 10 days on 8 November 2022 at 11:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 November 2022 at 06:37
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 November 2022 at 11:02
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 November 2022 at 13:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 November 2022 at 22:57
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 282 / 1235
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 282 of Meeus index or 1235 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 9 minutes. It is 49 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠299.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠299.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠325.5°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 17 October 2022 at 10:21 in ♋ Cancer. 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 29 October 2022 at 14:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 367 170 km
The Moon is 367 170 km (228 149 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 289 km (228 844 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 26 October 2022 at 06:30 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 8 November 2022 at 06:08 in ♉ Taurus.
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 before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 16 October 2022 at 06:12 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.473°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.500° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 October 2022 at 01:04 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 8 November 2022 at 11:02 in ♉ Taurus 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.
