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

Waxing Crescent in Leo

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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

Slide horizontally to discover the moon phase on nearby dates.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♌ Leo

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 4 July 2046 at 01:39.

Buck Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2046 after 11 days on 18 July 2046 at 00:55.

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 ∠1950"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1887".

Lunation 575 / 1528

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 575 of Meeus index or 1528 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 47 minutes and it is 47 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 3 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠304.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠304.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠328°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 25 June 2046 at 16:40 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 July 2046 at 18:06 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 367 639 km

The Moon is 367 639 km (228 440 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 114 km (228 114 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 5 July 2046 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 18 July 2046 at 17:49 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after northern standstill

3 days since the last northern standstill on 2 July 2046 at 13:24 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.701° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.722° at the point of next southern standstill on 15 July 2046 at 09:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 18 July 2046 at 00:55 in ♒ Aquarius 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