Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 12% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 26 September 2087 at 18:47.
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 ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1917".
Hunter Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2087 after 11 days on 12 October 2087 at 02:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 October 2087 at 23:32
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 12 October 2087 at 02:14
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 18 October 2087 at 17:27
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 26 October 2087 at 11:29
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 1085 / 2038
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1085 of Meeus index or 2038 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 11 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 3 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠129.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠158.4°.
Moon before perigee
15 days after point of perigee on 15 September 2087 at 08:02 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 October 2087 at 05:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 405 409 km
The Moon is 405 409 km (251 909 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 480 km (251 954 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♏ Scorpio at 07:30 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 13 October 2087 at 21:45 in ♉ Taurus.
New draconic month
At 07:30 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 18 September 2087 at 21:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.239°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.134° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 October 2087 at 03:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 12 October 2087 at 02:14 in ♈ Aries 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.
