Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 14% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 26 September 2068 at 10:48.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1806"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1806" and ∠1917".
Hunter Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2068 after 10 days on 11 October 2068 at 01:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 October 2068 at 10:23
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 11 October 2068 at 01:39
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 October 2068 at 00:00
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 October 2068 at 04:17
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 850 / 1803
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 850 of Meeus index or 1803 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2068. It is 4 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠183.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠209.1°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 26 September 2068 at 00:00 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 October 2068 at 11:20 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 396 843 km
The Moon is 396 843 km (246 587 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 423 km (222 092 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 14:29 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 13 October 2068 at 09:31 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 14:29 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days since the previous standstill on 17 September 2068 at 21:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.889°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.769° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 October 2068 at 15:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 11 October 2068 at 01:39 in ♈ Aries 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.
