Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 11% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 15 July 2072 at 17:56.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2072 after 11 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 22 July 2072 at 09:02
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 July 2072 at 00:17
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 August 2072 at 04:15
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 August 2072 at 01:21
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 897 / 1850
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 897 of Meeus index or 1850 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2072. It is 21 minutes shorter 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 5 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠333.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠333.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠350.4°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 17 July 2072 at 07:53 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 August 2072 at 19:10 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 363 299 km
The Moon is 363 299 km (225 744 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 886 km (252 206 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 20:41 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 1 August 2072 at 17:10 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 20:41 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 14 July 2072 at 10:48 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.668°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.639° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 July 2072 at 08:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 30 July 2072 at 00:17 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
