Waxing
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 32% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 32% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 30 June 2049 at 04:50.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1812"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1812" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2049 after 8 days on 15 July 2049 at 02:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 8 July 2049 at 07:10
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 15 July 2049 at 02:29
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 July 2049 at 18:48
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 29 July 2049 at 20:07
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 612 / 1565
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 612 of Meeus index or 1565 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 17 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2049. It is 6 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠162.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠162.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.8°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 2 July 2049 at 01:01 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 July 2049 at 07:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 395 532 km
The Moon is 395 532 km (245 772 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 060 km (221 867 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 27 June 2049 at 17:38 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 July 2049 at 03:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 28 June 2049 at 11:03 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.088°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.045° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 July 2049 at 19:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 15 July 2049 at 02:29 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
