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

Waxing Crescent in Aries

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 43% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♈ Aries

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 1 January 2033 at 10:17.

Wolf Moon after 8 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2033 after 8 days on 15 January 2033 at 13:07.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1951".

Lunation 408 / 1361

The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 408 of Meeus index or 1361 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.49 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠315.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠315.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠336.6°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 4 January 2033 at 05:24 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 January 2033 at 07:04 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 364 641 km

The Moon is 364 641 km (226 577 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 294 km (251 838 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 26 December 2032 at 21:36 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2033 at 18:31 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 31 December 2032 at 03:26 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.115° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.075° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 January 2033 at 00:33 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 15 January 2033 at 13:07 in ♋ Cancer 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