Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 16% illuminated
Waxing 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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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 23 October 2033 at 07:28.
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 ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1820"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1931".
Beaver Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2033 after 10 days on 6 November 2033 at 20:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 31 October 2033 at 04:46
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 November 2033 at 20:32
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 13 November 2033 at 20:09
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 November 2033 at 01:39
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 418 / 1371
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.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the 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 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 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠190.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠190.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠217.2°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 22 October 2033 at 03:15 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 November 2033 at 23:57 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 393 795 km
The Moon is 393 795 km (244 693 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 102 km (222 514 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 21 October 2033 at 19:04 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 November 2033 at 16:35 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 23:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.327°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.369° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 9 November 2033 at 16:57.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 6 November 2033 at 20:32 in ♉ Taurus 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.
