Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 25% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 25% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 18 November 2055 at 20:34.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1943".
Cold Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2055 after 10 days on 4 December 2055 at 05:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 26 November 2055 at 01:42
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 4 December 2055 at 05:40
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 11 December 2055 at 15:05
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 December 2055 at 08:15
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 691 / 1644
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 691 of Meeus index or 1644 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
Length of current 691 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes shorter than next lunation 692 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 3 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 6 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠24.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠24.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠45.5°. 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
6 days after point of perigee on 17 November 2055 at 09:42 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 29 November 2055 at 09:39 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 388 252 km
Moon is 388 252 km (241 249 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 307 km (251 846 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 14:19 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 8 December 2055 at 02:26 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 21 November 2055 at 23:06 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.087°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.161° in the next northern standstill on 6 December 2055 at 12:59 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 4 December 2055 at 05:40 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.