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

Waning Crescent in Taurus

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 in ♉ Taurus

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

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 3 June 2059 at 06:20.

Strawberry Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2059 after 17 days on 25 June 2059 at 18:12.

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 ∠1898"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1898" and ∠1890".

Lunation 734 / 1687

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 734 of Meeus index or 1687 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 20 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 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠53.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠53.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.4°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 2 June 2059 at 22:39 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 17 June 2059 at 01:27 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 377 649 km

The Moon is 377 649 km (234 660 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 358 km (251 256 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 12:58 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 June 2059 at 23:01 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 29 May 2059 at 17:41 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.652° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.629° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 June 2059 at 17:24 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 12:58 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 10 June 2059 at 05:57 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