Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 12% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 4 September 2032 at 20:57.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1808"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2032 after 10 days on 19 September 2032 at 09:30.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 September 2032 at 18:49
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 19 September 2032 at 09:30
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2032 at 09:12
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 October 2032 at 13:26
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 404 / 1357
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 404 of Meeus index or 1357 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2032. It is 11 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠189.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠189.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.1°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 3 September 2032 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 September 2032 at 14:05 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 396 519 km
The Moon is 396 519 km (246 385 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 032 km (222 471 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 21:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 21 September 2032 at 16:10 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 21:41 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 29 August 2032 at 03:57 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.299°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.181° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 September 2032 at 21:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 19 September 2032 at 09:30 in ♓ Pisces 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.
