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

Waxing Crescent in Scorpio

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 14% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 15 September 2069 at 11:35.

Harvest Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2069 after 11 days on 30 September 2069 at 18:09.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1911".

Lunation 862 / 1815

The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 862 of Meeus index or 1815 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.69 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 28 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠133.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠133.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠161.2°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 17:06 about 15 days since last perigee on 3 September 2069 at 20:15 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next perigee on 1 October 2069 at 22:56 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 405 575 km

This apogee Moon is 405 575 km (252 013 mi) away from Earth. It is 167 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 134 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 18 September 2069 at 23:24 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 2 October 2069 at 12:51 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 8 September 2069 at 10:56 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.464° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.361° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 September 2069 at 21:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 30 September 2069 at 18:09 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.

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