Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 17% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and growing larger. The 4 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 1 November 2062 at 07:32.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1936".
Beaver Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2062 after 11 days on 16 November 2062 at 20:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 9 November 2062 at 06:50
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 November 2062 at 20:48
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 November 2062 at 13:58
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 30 November 2062 at 23:01
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 777 / 1730
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 777 of Meeus index or 1730 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 28 minutes. It is 2 hours and 28 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠86.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠86.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 24 October 2062 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 November 2062 at 23:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 402 673 km
The Moon is 402 673 km (250 209 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 510 km (251 351 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 28 October 2062 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 November 2062 at 01:21 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 05:18 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.465°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.390° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 19 November 2062 at 04:48.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 16 November 2062 at 20:48 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.
