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

Waxing Crescent in Aquarius

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 38% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 6 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 is entering ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 30 October 2073 at 19:13.

Beaver Moon after 9 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2073 after 9 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55.

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 ∠1867"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1936".

Lunation 913 / 1866

The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 913 of Meeus index or 1866 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.42 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 59 minutes and it is 1 hour and 44 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠6.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠6.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠22.5°.

Moon after perigee

6 days since point of perigee on 30 October 2073 at 10:23 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 November 2073 at 10:04 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 383 863 km

The Moon is 383 863 km (238 521 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 195 km (252 398 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 25 October 2073 at 09:03 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 6 November 2073 at 19:59 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 3 November 2073 at 23:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.020° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.145° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 November 2073 at 15:10 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55 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.

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