Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 3% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 5 August 2081 at 01:24.
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 ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1892".
Sturgeon Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2081 after 12 days on 19 August 2081 at 11:15.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 11 August 2081 at 16:32
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 19 August 2081 at 11:15
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 August 2081 at 14:08
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2081 at 09:01
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 1009 / 1962
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1009 of Meeus index or 1962 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2081. It is 44 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 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠341.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠341.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠357.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 03:56. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 24 July 2081 at 19:37 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 14 days, until point of next apogee on 21 August 2081 at 05:57 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 359 262 km
This perigee Moon is 359 262 km (223 235 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 246 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 11 094 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 24 July 2081 at 18:52 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 7 August 2081 at 04:49 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 1 August 2081 at 22:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.454°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.500° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 August 2081 at 14:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 19 August 2081 at 11:15 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.
