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

Waning Crescent in Gemini

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 9% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 26 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 19 July 2033 at 04:07.

Sturgeon Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2033 after 18 days on 10 August 2033 at 18:08.

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 ∠1891"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1891" and ∠1889".

Lunation 414 / 1367

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 414 of Meeus index or 1367 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 6 minutes and it is 2 hours and 21 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 1 hour and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 31 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠74.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠74.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠108.5°.

Moon after perigee

7 days since point of perigee on 16 July 2033 at 09:27 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 July 2033 at 23:13 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 378 964 km

The Moon is 378 964 km (235 477 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 734 km (251 490 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 18 July 2033 at 09:20 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 August 2033 at 03:38 in ♎ Libra.

Moon at northern standstill

At 11:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.624°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.529° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 7 August 2033 at 00:25.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 26 July 2033 at 08:12 in ♌ Leo 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