Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 29% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 29% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 1 December 2043 at 14:37.
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 ∠20° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1833"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1833" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2043 after 8 days on 16 December 2043 at 08:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 December 2043 at 15:27
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 December 2043 at 08:02
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 23 December 2043 at 05:04
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 31 December 2043 at 09:48
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.
Lunation 543 / 1496
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 543 of Meeus index or 1496 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
Length of current 543 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 11 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2043. It is 55 minutes longer than next lunation 544 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 36 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠179.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠204.4°. 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 after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 1 December 2043 at 17:07 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 December 2043 at 22:01 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 390 994 km
Moon is 390 994 km (242 952 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 769 km (221 686 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after its descending node on 25 November 2043 at 15:09 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 December 2043 at 06:19 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 3 December 2043 at 07:43 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.421°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.409° in the next northern standstill on 16 December 2043 at 16:08 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 16 December 2043 at 08:02 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.