Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 22% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 29 November 2073 at 05:12.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1859"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1859" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2073 after 11 days on 14 December 2073 at 13:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 6 December 2073 at 09:33
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 14 December 2073 at 13:49
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 22 December 2073 at 00:06
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 28 December 2073 at 16:55
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.
Lunation 914 / 1867
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 914 of Meeus index or 1867 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 hour and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠22.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠22.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠43.1°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 27 November 2073 at 21:03 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 9 December 2073 at 22:16 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 385 641 km
The Moon is 385 641 km (239 626 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 427 km (251 921 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 22:40 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 18 December 2073 at 11:14 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 1 December 2073 at 10:11 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.206°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.261° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 December 2073 at 22:12 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 14 December 2073 at 13:49 in ♊ Gemini 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.
