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

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 10 June 2059 at 05:57.

Strawberry Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2059 after 14 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 ∠1829"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1829" and ∠1890".

Lunation 735 / 1688

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 735 of Meeus index or 1688 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 2 minutes and it is 1 hour and 37 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 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠84.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠84.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠119.3°.

Moon before apogee

8 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 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 June 2059 at 01:27 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 391 827 km

The Moon is 391 827 km (243 470 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 358 km (251 256 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 8 June 2059 at 12:58 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 June 2059 at 23:01 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon at northern standstill

At 17:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.629°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.615° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 26 June 2059 at 01:24.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 14 days

In 14 days on 25 June 2059 at 18:12 in ♐ Sagittarius 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