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 4% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 27 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 is entering ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 12 June 2050 at 04:39.

Buck Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2050 after 17 days on 4 July 2050 at 18:51.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1874"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1888".

Lunation 623 / 1576

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 623 of Meeus index or 1576 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.48 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 31 minutes and it is 1 hour and 24 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 13 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 56 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠69.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠69.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠104.1°.

Moon before apogee

7 days since point of perigee on 9 June 2050 at 18:25 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 June 2050 at 04:29 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 382 498 km

The Moon is 382 498 km (237 673 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 736 km (251 491 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 16 June 2050 at 11:27 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 June 2050 at 22:15 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 5 June 2050 at 17:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.508° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.513° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2050 at 15:49 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 19 June 2050 at 08:22 in ♊ Gemini 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