Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Scorpio

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 21 September 2025 at 19:54.

Hunter Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2025 after 12 days on 7 October 2025 at 03:47.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1773"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1913".

Lunation 318 / 1271

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 318 of Meeus index or 1271 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.69 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠127.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠127.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.8°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 10 September 2025 at 12:09 in ♈ Aries 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 26 September 2025 at 09:46 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 404 267 km

The Moon is 404 267 km (251 200 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 552 km (251 998 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 20 September 2025 at 23:13 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 October 2025 at 09:20 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 14 September 2025 at 21:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.630° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.599° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 September 2025 at 06:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 7 October 2025 at 03:47 in ♈ Aries 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov