Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 34% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 3 December 2051 at 09:37.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1908"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1908" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2051 after 8 days on 17 December 2051 at 16:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 11 December 2051 at 00:07
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 December 2051 at 16:05
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 24 December 2051 at 23:21
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 January 2052 at 03:05
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 642 / 1595
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 642 of Meeus index or 1595 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 642 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 29 minutes. It is 2 hours and 4 minutes longer than next lunation 643 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠214.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠214.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠248.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 29 November 2051 at 23:42 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 December 2051 at 19:57 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 375 600 km
Moon is 375 600 km (233 387 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 361 745 km (224 778 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 29 November 2051 at 08:08 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 13 December 2051 at 08:09 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 4 December 2051 at 11:27 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.781°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.789° in the next northern standstill on 17 December 2051 at 14:21 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 8 days
After 8 days on 17 December 2051 at 16:05 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.