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 5% 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 14 June 2066 at 19:10.

Buck Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2066 after 16 days on 7 July 2066 at 09:34.

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 ∠1776"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1888".

Lunation 821 / 1774

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 821 of Meeus index or 1774 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 37 minutes and it is 18 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2066. 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠160.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠160.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183.2°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 8 June 2066 at 10:06 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 June 2066 at 10:28 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 403 642 km

The Moon is 403 642 km (250 812 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 486 km (252 579 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 9 June 2066 at 12:08 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 23 June 2066 at 09:49 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 8 June 2066 at 04:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.723° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.724° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 June 2066 at 17:22 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 22 June 2066 at 19:15 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