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

Waxing Crescent in Taurus

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 17 April 2045 at 07:27.

Flower Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2045 after 12 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1882"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1910".

Lunation 560 / 1513

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 560 of Meeus index or 1513 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute and it is 2 hours and 22 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠274.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠274.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠305.3°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 10 April 2045 at 13:48 in ♑ Capricorn 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 24 April 2045 at 22:26 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 380 819 km

The Moon is 380 819 km (236 630 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 865 km (229 823 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 12 April 2045 at 18:23 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 April 2045 at 01:40 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 7 April 2045 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.012° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.903° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2045 at 12:18 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52 in ♏ Scorpio 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