Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 4% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 26 October 2049 at 16:15.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1901"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1901" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2049 after 12 days on 9 November 2049 at 15:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2049 at 16:19
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 November 2049 at 15:38
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 November 2049 at 14:32
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 25 November 2049 at 05:35
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 616 / 1569
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 616 of Meeus index or 1569 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 5 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 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 26 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠278.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠278.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.2°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 19 October 2049 at 18:32 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 November 2049 at 18:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 377 018 km
The Moon is 377 018 km (234 268 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 118 km (229 981 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 15:39 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 10 November 2049 at 14:33 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 15:39 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 15 October 2049 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.344°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.292° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 October 2049 at 23:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 9 November 2049 at 15:38 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.
