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 25% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 19 October 2047 at 03:28.

Beaver Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2047 after 10 days on 2 November 2047 at 16:58.

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 ∠1947"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1929".

Lunation 591 / 1544

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 591 of Meeus index or 1544 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.4 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠346.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠346.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.2°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 19 October 2047 at 21:58 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 November 2047 at 16:20 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 368 093 km

The Moon is 368 093 km (228 722 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 422 km (252 539 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 11 October 2047 at 12:21 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 October 2047 at 02:50 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 22 October 2047 at 17:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.711° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.612° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 November 2047 at 23:50 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 2 November 2047 at 16:58 in ♉ Taurus 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