Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Libra

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% 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 in ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 3 August 2054 at 17:48.

Sturgeon Moon after 9 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2054 after 9 days on 18 August 2054 at 09:22.

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 ∠1927"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1893".

Lunation 675 / 1628

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 675 of Meeus index or 1628 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.31 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 5 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠352.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.4°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 4 August 2054 at 04:47 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 August 2054 at 10:18 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 371 980 km

The Moon is 371 980 km (231 138 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 258 km (252 437 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 4 August 2054 at 20:23 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 August 2054 at 14:57 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 1 August 2054 at 11:52 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.139° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.120° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2054 at 09:17 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 18 August 2054 at 09:22 in ♒ Aquarius 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