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

Waning Crescent in Cancer

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 12 July 2058 at 17:28.

Sturgeon Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2058 after 16 days on 4 August 2058 at 09:37.

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 ∠1783"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1888".

Lunation 723 / 1676

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 723 of Meeus index or 1676 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 5 minutes and it is 18 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠148.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠148.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠173.1°.

Moon before apogee

11 days since point of perigee on 6 July 2058 at 19:45 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 July 2058 at 10:15 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 401 933 km

The Moon is 401 933 km (249 750 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 575 km (252 634 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 16 July 2058 at 23:56 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 31 July 2058 at 11:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 5 July 2058 at 20:52 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.284° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠25.278° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 July 2058 at 03:57 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 20 July 2058 at 15:40 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