Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase on 3 October 2054 Saturday is Waxing Crescent, 2 days young Moon is in Scorpio.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 1 October 2054 at 09:49.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1910" and ∠1918".
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2054 after 13 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44.
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.
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 677 of Meeus index or 1630 from Brown series.
Length of current 677 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than next lunation 678 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 37 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠23.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠44°. 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°).
3 days after point of perigee on 29 September 2054 at 23:51 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
Moon is 375 352 km (233 233 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 118 km (251 729 mi).
4 days after its ascending node on 28 September 2054 at 16:44 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 October 2054 at 01:43 in ♒ Aquarius.
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
8 days after previous North standstill on 25 September 2054 at 05:02 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.216°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.290° in the next southern standstill on 7 October 2054 at 22:45 in ♑ Capricorn.
After 13 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.