Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 6% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 11 October 2083 at 10:23.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1924".
Hunter Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2083 after 12 days on 25 October 2083 at 14:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 October 2083 at 01:54
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 25 October 2083 at 14:36
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 2 November 2083 at 19:30
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 9 November 2083 at 20:15
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 1036 / 1989
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 1036 of Meeus index or 1989 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
Length of current 1036 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2083. It is 18 minutes shorter than next lunation 1037 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 17 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠325°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠325°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠343.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 13:59, this is 11 days after last apogee on 1 October 2083 at 17:48 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 29 October 2083 at 11:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 362 926 km
This perigee Moon is 362 926 km (225 512 mi) away from Earth. It is 418 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 430 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 6 October 2083 at 02:37 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 18 October 2083 at 19:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 2 October 2083 at 11:05 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.664°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.557° in the next southern standstill on 15 October 2083 at 18:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 25 October 2083 at 14:36 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.