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

Waning Crescent in Cancer

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 36% 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 is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 4 September 2064 at 01:29.

Harvest Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2064 after 20 days on 25 September 2064 at 13:38.

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 ∠1845"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1845" and ∠1904".

Lunation 799 / 1752

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 799 of Meeus index or 1752 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.35 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2064. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠325.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠325.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠344°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 30 August 2064 at 14:46 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 September 2064 at 00:51 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 388 444 km

The Moon is 388 444 km (241 368 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 598 km (222 822 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 25 August 2064 at 09:06 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 September 2064 at 19:25 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 4 September 2064 at 22:06 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.341° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.279° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 September 2064 at 12:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 11 September 2064 at 02:11 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