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Quarter* ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 38% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 38% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 23 September 2033 at 13:40.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1831"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1831" and ∠1917".
Hunter Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2033 after 7 days on 8 October 2033 at 10:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 1 October 2033 at 16:33
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 8 October 2033 at 10:58
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 15 October 2033 at 04:47
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 October 2033 at 07:28
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 417 / 1370
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 417 of Meeus index or 1370 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 49 minutes. It is 22 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠166.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠166.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 25 September 2033 at 01:33 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 October 2033 at 12:11 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 391 532 km
The Moon is 391 532 km (243 287 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 825 km (221 721 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 24 September 2033 at 12:46 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 October 2033 at 05:55 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 17:33 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.282°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2033. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.284° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 13 October 2033 at 07:00.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 8 October 2033 at 10:58 in ♈ Aries 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.
