Waxing
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 24% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 19 October 2066 at 01:42.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1929".
Beaver Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2066 after 9 days on 2 November 2066 at 02:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 25 October 2066 at 20:52
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 November 2066 at 02:13
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 November 2066 at 05:45
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 November 2066 at 13:06
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 826 / 1779
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 826 of Meeus index or 1779 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 23 minutes. It is 11 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 48 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠304.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠304.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328.7°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 22 October 2066 at 18:37 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 15 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 November 2066 at 14:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 772 km
The Moon is 363 772 km (226 037 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 15 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 915 km (251 603 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 16:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 6 November 2066 at 05:30 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 16:14 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 22 October 2066 at 18:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.054°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.974° at the point of next northern standstill on 5 November 2066 at 05:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 2 November 2066 at 02:13 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.
