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 30% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 14 September 2099 at 16:50.

Harvest Moon after 9 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2099 after 9 days on 29 September 2099 at 10:45.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1919"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1911".

Lunation 1233 / 2186

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1233 of Meeus index or 2186 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.36 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 4 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠355.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠355.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠10.7°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 14 September 2099 at 23:26 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 September 2099 at 22:34 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 373 608 km

The Moon is 373 608 km (232 149 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 272 km (252 446 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 14 September 2099 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 28 September 2099 at 14:28 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 8 September 2099 at 23:00 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.676° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.686° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 September 2099 at 11:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 29 September 2099 at 10:45 in ♈ Aries 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