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

Waxing Crescent in Sagittarius

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 8 November 2075 at 11:35.

Beaver Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2075 after 12 days on 22 November 2075 at 14:20.

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 ∠1955"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1938".

Lunation 938 / 1891

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 938 of Meeus index or 1891 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.48 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 28 minutes and it is 17 minutes longer 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 1 hour and 16 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠316.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠316.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠337.3°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 30 October 2075 at 10:53 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 November 2075 at 05:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 366 724 km

The Moon is 366 724 km (227 872 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 081 km (226 851 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 29 October 2075 at 07:44 in ♋ Cancer 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 11 November 2075 at 22:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 29 October 2075 at 16:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.331° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.417° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 November 2075 at 07:45 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 22 November 2075 at 14:20 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