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

Waxing Crescent in Virgo

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 13% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 7 July 2032 at 14:41.

Buck Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2032 after 11 days on 22 July 2032 at 18:51.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".

Lunation 402 / 1355

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 402 of Meeus index or 1355 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 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 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠140.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠140.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠166.3°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 07:50 about 15 days since last perigee on 25 June 2032 at 14:55 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 23 July 2032 at 18:45 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 405 826 km

This apogee Moon is 405 826 km (252 169 mi) away from Earth. It is 418 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 883 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 2 July 2032 at 05:24 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 July 2032 at 18:15 in ♎ Libra.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 5 July 2032 at 14:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.659° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.579° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 July 2032 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 22 July 2032 at 18:51 in ♑ Capricorn 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