Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 24% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 30 October 2054 at 20:01.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1811"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1935".
Beaver Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2054 after 10 days on 15 November 2054 at 08:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 November 2054 at 08:34
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 15 November 2054 at 08:49
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 November 2054 at 10:22
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 November 2054 at 08:33
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 678 / 1631
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 678 of Meeus index or 1631 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes. It is 2 hours and 46 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠44°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠44°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠72.4°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 28 October 2054 at 01:15 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 November 2054 at 19:52 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 395 836 km
The Moon is 395 836 km (245 961 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 372 km (251 265 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 25 October 2054 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 November 2054 at 04:08 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 07:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-19.520°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠19.632° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 18 November 2054 at 17:11.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 15 November 2054 at 08:49 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.
