Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 2% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 2% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 18 August 2031 at 04:32.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1805"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1805" and ∠1896".
Harvest Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2031 after 12 days on 1 September 2031 at 09:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 August 2031 at 18:40
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 1 September 2031 at 09:20
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 September 2031 at 16:14
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 September 2031 at 18:47
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 391 / 1344
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 391 of Meeus index or 1344 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 391 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 15 minutes. It is 41 minutes longer than next lunation 392 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠213.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠213.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠245.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 14 August 2031 at 21:37 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 30 August 2031 at 12:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 397 141 km
Moon is 397 141 km (246 772 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 11 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 684 km (224 740 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 10 August 2031 at 14:10 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 August 2031 at 01:21 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days after previous North standstill on 12 August 2031 at 15:58 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.868°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.731° in the next southern standstill on 26 August 2031 at 23:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 1 September 2031 at 09:20 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.