Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 18% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 16 November 2028 at 13:18.
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 ∠19° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1835"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1835" and ∠1942".
Cold Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2028 after 11 days on 2 December 2028 at 01:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 November 2028 at 00:15
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 2 December 2028 at 01:40
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 December 2028 at 05:39
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 December 2028 at 02:06
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 357 / 1310
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 357 of Meeus index or 1310 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 48 minutes. It is 2 hours and 30 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 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠37.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠37.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠63.8°.
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 14 November 2028 at 05:53 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 November 2028 at 00:10 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 390 514 km
The Moon is 390 514 km (242 654 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 732 km (251 489 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 04:34 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 4 December 2028 at 15:14 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 04:34 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 18 November 2028 at 07:22 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.208°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.180° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 December 2028 at 18:12 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 2 December 2028 at 01:40 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.
