Waxing
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 9% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 28 October 2095 at 06:32.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1805"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1805" and ∠1933".
Beaver Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2095 after 11 days on 11 November 2095 at 19:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 5 November 2095 at 04:09
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 November 2095 at 19:05
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 November 2095 at 19:55
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 November 2095 at 00:54
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 1185 / 2138
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 1185 of Meeus index or 2138 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
Length of current 1185 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2095. It is 52 minutes longer than next lunation 1186 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠192.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠192.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠219.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 26 October 2095 at 21:48 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 November 2095 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 397 082 km
Moon is 397 082 km (246 735 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 236 km (222 598 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 04:49 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 13 November 2095 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 18 October 2095 at 21:15 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.525°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.619° in the next southern standstill on 2 November 2095 at 15:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 11 November 2095 at 19:05 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.