Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 15% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 15% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 12 December 2042 at 14:29.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1886"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1950".
Cold Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2042 after 10 days on 26 December 2042 at 17:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 December 2042 at 00:28
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 December 2042 at 17:43
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 January 2043 at 06:08
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 January 2043 at 06:53
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 531 / 1484
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 531 of Meeus index or 1484 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
Length of current 531 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 24 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than next lunation 532 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠232°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠232°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠269.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 8 December 2042 at 00:37 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 24 December 2042 at 02:12 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 380 040 km
Moon is 380 040 km (236 146 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 795 km (226 673 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 7 December 2042 at 05:37 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 21 December 2042 at 04:46 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 13 December 2042 at 13:29 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.294°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.289° in the next northern standstill on 26 December 2042 at 13:20 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 26 December 2042 at 17:43 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.