Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase on 27 October 2033 Thursday is Waxing Crescent, 4 days young Moon is in Sagittarius.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 16% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 23 October 2033 at 07:28.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1931".
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2033 after 10 days on 6 November 2033 at 20:32.
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.
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 418 of Meeus index or 1371 from Brown series.
Length of current 418 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 11 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2033. It is 1 hour and 4 minutes longer than next lunation 419 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠190.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠217.2°. 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°).
5 days after point of apogee on 22 October 2033 at 03:15 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 5 November 2033 at 23:57 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 393 795 km (244 693 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 102 km (222 514 mi).
5 days after its ascending node on 21 October 2033 at 19:04 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2033 at 16:35 in ♈ Aries.
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
At 23:48 on this date the Moon is meeting its South standstill point, when it will reach southern declination of ∠-18.327°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite northward direction to face North declination of ∠18.369° in its northern standstill point on 9 November 2033 at 16:57 in ♊ Gemini.
After 10 days on 6 November 2033 at 20:32 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.