Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 33% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 33% 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 25 September 2041 at 08:41.
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 ∠1882"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1917".
Hunter Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2041 after 8 days on 9 October 2041 at 18:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 3 October 2041 at 03:33
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 October 2041 at 18:03
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 October 2041 at 21:05
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 25 October 2041 at 01:30
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 516 / 1469
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 516 of Meeus index or 1469 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2041. It is 43 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 4 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠200.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠200.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠229.1°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 23 September 2041 at 04:59 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 October 2041 at 12:08 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 380 885 km
The Moon is 380 885 km (236 671 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 445 km (223 349 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 28 September 2041 at 03:42 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 October 2041 at 01:30 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 18 September 2041 at 03:03 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.700°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.789° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 October 2041 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 9 October 2041 at 18:03 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.
