Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 17% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 24 August 2052 at 11:07.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1900".
Harvest Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2052 after 11 days on 9 September 2052 at 00:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 September 2052 at 07:10
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 September 2052 at 00:15
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 15 September 2052 at 19:48
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 22 September 2052 at 23:32
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 651 / 1604
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 651 of Meeus index or 1604 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 651 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 652 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠69.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠69.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠104.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 19 August 2052 at 04:12 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 September 2052 at 00:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 399 560 km
Moon is 399 560 km (248 275 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 226 km (251 174 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 27 August 2052 at 00:15 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 10 September 2052 at 07:41 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 19 August 2052 at 22:30 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.268°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.203° in the next southern standstill on 2 September 2052 at 21:23 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 9 September 2052 at 00:15 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.