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

Waning Crescent in Gemini

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 35% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 in ♊ Gemini

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

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 30 August 2059 at 01:05.

Harvest Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2059 after 21 days on 21 September 2059 at 17:18.

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 ∠1861"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1901".

Lunation 737 / 1690

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 737 of Meeus index or 1690 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠149.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠173.7°.

Moon before apogee

7 days since point of perigee on 24 August 2059 at 02:14 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 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 September 2059 at 16:10 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 385 159 km

The Moon is 385 159 km (239 327 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 622 km (252 663 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 28 August 2059 at 20:26 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 12 September 2059 at 09:18 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 19 August 2059 at 20:09 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.789° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.870° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 September 2059 at 10:58 in ♋ Cancer.

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 6 days

In 6 days on 6 September 2059 at 23:01 in ♍ Virgo 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