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 42% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 23 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 18 August 2060 at 18:23.

Harvest Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2060 after 21 days on 10 September 2060 at 09:44.

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 ∠1953"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1896".

Lunation 749 / 1702

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 749 of Meeus index or 1702 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 7 minutes and it is 2 hours and 50 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 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠84.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠84.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠119.2°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 15 August 2060 at 06:57 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 August 2060 at 02:25 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 367 061 km

The Moon is 367 061 km (228 081 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 090 km (251 711 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 16 August 2060 at 23:52 in ♈ Aries 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 30 August 2060 at 17:20 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 8 August 2060 at 17:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.761° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.843° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 August 2060 at 13:52 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 26 August 2060 at 00:56 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