Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 26% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days 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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1890"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1890" and ∠1898".
Harvest Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2031 after 8 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
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 391 / 1344
The Moon is 5 days 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 before perigee
8 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 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 30 August 2031 at 12:53 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 379 314 km
Moon is 379 314 km (235 695 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 684 km (224 740 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 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 day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 25 August 2031 at 01:21 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days after previous North standstill on 12 August 2031 at 15:58 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.868°. Next 3 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 8 days
After 8 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.