Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
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 ♎ Libra.
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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 5 August 2062 at 00:40.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1877"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1877" and ∠1893".
Sturgeon Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2062 after 10 days on 20 August 2062 at 03:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 12 August 2062 at 00:21
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 20 August 2062 at 03:55
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 August 2062 at 17:49
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2062 at 08:42
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 774 / 1727
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 774 of Meeus index or 1727 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 774 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 775 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 27 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠14°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠14°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠31.5°. 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 4 August 2062 at 04:41 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 16 August 2062 at 18:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 381 837 km
Moon is 381 837 km (237 263 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 741 km (252 116 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 7 August 2062 at 17:38 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 22 August 2062 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 2 August 2062 at 02:58 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.542°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.592° in the next southern standstill on 15 August 2062 at 06:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 20 August 2062 at 03:55 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.