Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 7% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 6 September 2097 at 00:33.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1853"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1853" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2097 after 13 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 September 2097 at 14:22
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 21 September 2097 at 13:00
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 28 September 2097 at 13:39
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 5 October 2097 at 11:45
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 1208 / 2161
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 1208 of Meeus index or 2161 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 1208 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 11 minutes shorter than next lunation 1209 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 37 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠47.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠47.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠76.4°. 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 after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 2 September 2097 at 23:07 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 14 September 2097 at 20:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 386 861 km
Moon is 386 861 km (240 384 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 346 km (251 249 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 27 August 2097 at 22:42 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 September 2097 at 17:26 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days after previous North standstill on 1 September 2097 at 07:23 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.741°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.835° in the next southern standstill on 14 September 2097 at 18:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.