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 4% 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 28 October 2095 at 06:32.

Beaver Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2095 after 12 days on 11 November 2095 at 19:05.

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 ∠1790"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1790" and ∠1933".

Lunation 1185 / 2138

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1185 of Meeus index or 2138 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 52 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2095. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠192.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠192.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠219.6°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 26 October 2095 at 21:48 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 November 2095 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 400 402 km

The Moon is 400 402 km (248 798 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 236 km (222 598 mi).

Moon before descending node

13 days after ascending node on 16 October 2095 at 18:35 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2095 at 04:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 18 October 2095 at 21:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.525° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.619° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 November 2095 at 15:39 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the first to the middle part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 11 November 2095 at 19:05 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