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

Waxing Crescent in Scorpio

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 20 October 2055 at 10:49.

Beaver Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2055 after 13 days on 4 November 2055 at 12:12.

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 ∠1945"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1945" and ∠1928".

Lunation 690 / 1643

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 690 of Meeus index or 1643 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 56 minutes 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 2 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠7.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠7.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠24.3°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 19 October 2055 at 23:43 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 November 2055 at 20:44 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 368 546 km

The Moon is 368 546 km (229 004 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 106 km (252 343 mi).

Moon before descending node

7 days after ascending node on 15 October 2055 at 00:14 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 27 October 2055 at 11:35 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

9 days since the last northern standstill on 13 October 2055 at 00:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.758° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.867° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2055 at 12:52 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

7 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 13 days

In 13 days on 4 November 2055 at 12:12 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.

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