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

Waxing Crescent in Capricorn

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 32% 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 in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 20 October 2074 at 11:11.

Beaver Moon after 9 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2074 after 9 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1930".

Lunation 925 / 1878

The Moon is 6 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 925 of Meeus index or 1878 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠335.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠335.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.3°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 21 October 2074 at 21:56 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 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 November 2074 at 10:36 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 366 546 km

The Moon is 366 546 km (227 761 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 179 km (252 388 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 14 October 2074 at 00:03 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 26 October 2074 at 15:21 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at southern standstill

At 10:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.522°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.659° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 8 November 2074 at 20:11.

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 3 November 2074 at 19:21 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