Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 9% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% 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 9 November 2026 at 07:02.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1939".
Beaver Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2026 after 12 days on 24 November 2026 at 14:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 17 November 2026 at 11:48
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 November 2026 at 14:53
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 December 2026 at 06:09
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 December 2026 at 00:52
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 332 / 1285
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 332 of Meeus index or 1285 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 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 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠129.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠159.4°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 28 October 2026 at 18:01 in ♊ Gemini. 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 13 November 2026 at 17:50 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 085 km
The Moon is 405 085 km (251 708 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 619 km (252 040 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 3 November 2026 at 03:02 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 November 2026 at 11:49 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 09:40 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.697°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.645° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 November 2026 at 02:01.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 24 November 2026 at 14:53 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.
