Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Capricorn

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 44% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 7 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

7 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 14 October 2042 at 02:03.

Hunter Moon after 7 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2042 after 7 days on 28 October 2042 at 19:48.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1863"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1863" and ∠1928".

Lunation 529 / 1482

The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 529 of Meeus index or 1482 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 25 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2042. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠177.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠177.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.7°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 14 October 2042 at 10:02 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 October 2042 at 11:27 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 384 705 km

The Moon is 384 705 km (239 045 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 973 km (221 813 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 13 October 2042 at 20:03 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 October 2042 at 16:01 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 20 October 2042 at 02:47 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.484° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.455° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 November 2042 at 17:22 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 7 days

In 7 days on 28 October 2042 at 19:48 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov