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 ∠19° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 13 November 2088 at 06:32.

Beaver Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2088 after 13 days on 28 November 2088 at 14:18.

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 ∠1774"

Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1941".

Lunation 1099 / 2052

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1099 of Meeus index or 2052 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.76 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 6 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠131.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠131.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠160.8°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 1 November 2088 at 14:54 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 November 2088 at 14:57 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 404 000 km

The Moon is 404 000 km (251 034 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 757 km (252 126 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 11 November 2088 at 08:03 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 November 2088 at 20:19 in ♈ Aries.

Moon at southern standstill

At 20:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.899°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.926° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 November 2088 at 15:58.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 28 November 2088 at 14:18 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