Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Gemini

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

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 in ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 12 July 2020 at 23:29.

Sturgeon Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2020 after 17 days on 3 August 2020 at 15:59.

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 ∠1815"

Lunar disc appears visually 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1815" and ∠1888".

Lunation 253 / 1206

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 253 of Meeus index or 1206 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠263.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠263.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠296.9°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 12 July 2020 at 19:27 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 July 2020 at 04:54 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 395 021 km

The Moon is 395 021 km (245 455 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 367 km (228 893 mi).

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 4 July 2020 at 03:18 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 July 2020 at 12:33 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 5 July 2020 at 01:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.064° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.069° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 July 2020 at 11:51 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 20 July 2020 at 17:33 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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