Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 34% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 28 August 2087 at 05:08.
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 ∠22° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2087 after 9 days on 12 September 2087 at 16:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 September 2087 at 05:49
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 12 September 2087 at 16:43
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 19 September 2087 at 09:23
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 26 September 2087 at 18:47
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 1084 / 2037
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1084 of Meeus index or 2037 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 39 minutes. It is 3 hours and 4 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠95.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠95.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠129.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 11:42. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 19 August 2087 at 10:24 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 15 September 2087 at 08:02 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 404 474 km
This apogee Moon is 404 474 km (251 328 mi) away from Earth. It is 934 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 235 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 03:54 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 16 September 2087 at 15:01 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 03:54 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 22 August 2087 at 16:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.473°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.343° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 September 2087 at 19:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 12 September 2087 at 16:43 in ♓ Pisces 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.
