Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 14% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 1 July 2095 at 19:54.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2095 after 11 days on 17 July 2095 at 08:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 9 July 2095 at 16:15
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 17 July 2095 at 08:31
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 24 July 2095 at 02:17
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 31 July 2095 at 07:29
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 1181 / 2134
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1181 of Meeus index or 2134 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
Length of current 1181 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 34 minutes. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter than next lunation 1182 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 10 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 59 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠76.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠76.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠110.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 25 June 2095 at 17:27 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 July 2095 at 01:10 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 399 470 km
Moon is 399 470 km (248 219 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 250 km (251 189 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after its ascending node on 30 June 2095 at 06:21 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 July 2095 at 15:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
5 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 1 July 2095 at 21:09 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠24.901°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-24.908° in the next southern standstill on 16 July 2095 at 07:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 17 July 2095 at 08:31 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.