Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 18% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 17 October 2039 at 19:09.
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 ∠18° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1928".
Hunter Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2039 after 10 days on 31 October 2039 at 22:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2039 at 11:50
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 31 October 2039 at 22:36
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 November 2039 at 03:46
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 16 November 2039 at 05:46
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 492 / 1445
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 492 of Meeus index or 1445 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 37 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2039. It is 9 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 7 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 2 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠321.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠321.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠340.7°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 20 October 2039 at 05:11 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 November 2039 at 04:29 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 363 366 km
The Moon is 363 366 km (225 785 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 534 km (251 987 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 04:37 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 3 November 2039 at 19:55 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 9 October 2039 at 20:04 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.247°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.344° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 October 2039 at 01:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 31 October 2039 at 22:36 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.
