Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 12 August 2045 at 17:39.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1894".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2045 after 14 days on 27 August 2045 at 14:08.
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.
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 564 of Meeus index or 1517 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠0.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠16.2°.
1 day after point of perigee on 12 August 2045 at 16:40 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 August 2045 at 04:13 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 363 750 km (226 024 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 140 km (252 364 mi).
1 day after descending node on 12 August 2045 at 21:20 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 August 2045 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
4 days since the previous standstill on 8 August 2045 at 22:31 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.798°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.803° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 August 2045 at 15:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 14 days on 27 August 2045 at 14:08 in ♒ Aquarius 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.