Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 24% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 15 July 2034 at 18:15.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1808"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1808" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2034 after 10 days on 31 July 2034 at 05:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 July 2034 at 07:05
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 July 2034 at 05:54
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 August 2034 at 06:50
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 August 2034 at 03:53
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 427 / 1380
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 427 of Meeus index or 1380 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 38 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠45.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠45.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.9°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 12 July 2034 at 19:35 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 July 2034 at 17:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 396 417 km
The Moon is 396 417 km (246 322 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 334 km (251 241 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 09:54 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 3 August 2034 at 16:44 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 09:54 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 14 July 2034 at 05:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.385°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.336° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 July 2034 at 08:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 31 July 2034 at 05:54 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
