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 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 passing about ∠13° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 8 June 2072 at 21:20.

Strawberry Moon after 14 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2072 after 14 days on 30 June 2072 at 10:21.

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 ∠1891"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1891" and ∠1889".

Lunation 895 / 1848

The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 895 of Meeus index or 1848 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.4 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes and it is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠285°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠285° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠313.1°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 7 June 2072 at 12:42 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 June 2072 at 10:24 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 378 965 km

The Moon is 378 965 km (235 478 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 625 km (227 189 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 8 June 2072 at 10:43 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 21 June 2072 at 16:43 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 2 June 2072 at 16:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.669° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.692° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 June 2072 at 00:01 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 16 June 2072 at 09:57 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