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

Waxing Crescent in Pisces

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 40% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 15 December 2058 at 16:12.

Cold Moon after 8 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2058 after 8 days on 29 December 2058 at 20:25.

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 ∠1963"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1951".

Lunation 729 / 1682

The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 729 of Meeus index or 1682 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.49 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 45 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠321.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠321.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.1°.

Moon before perigee

15 days since point of apogee on 6 December 2058 at 07:43 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 January 2059 at 02:24 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 365 136 km

The Moon is 365 136 km (226 885 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 679 km (252 077 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 14 December 2058 at 09:40 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 December 2058 at 05:49 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 16 December 2058 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.991° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.970° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 December 2058 at 22:55 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 29 December 2058 at 20:25 in ♋ Cancer 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