Waxing
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
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 ♏ Scorpio.
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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 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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1830"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1830" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2097 after 12 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 4 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
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 12 minutes. It is 3 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠47.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠47.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.4°.
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 2 September 2097 at 23:07 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 September 2097 at 20:28 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 391 581 km
The Moon is 391 581 km (243 317 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 346 km (251 249 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 17:26 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 24 September 2097 at 02:09 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 1 September 2097 at 07:23 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.741°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.835° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 September 2097 at 18:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 21 September 2097 at 13:00 in ♓ Pisces 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.
