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

Waxing Crescent in Leo

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 13% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

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 ♌ Leo

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 16 June 2072 at 09:57.

Strawberry Moon after 10 days

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

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 ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1888".

Lunation 896 / 1849

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 896 of Meeus index or 1849 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.33 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 59 minutes and it is 34 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 4 hours and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠313.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠313.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠333.8°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 10:24 about 11 days since last apogee on 7 June 2072 at 12:42 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 5 July 2072 at 05:53 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 365 625 km

This perigee Moon is 365 625 km (227 189 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 117 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 731 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 8 June 2072 at 10:43 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 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 after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 17 June 2072 at 00:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.692° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.704° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 June 2072 at 01:20 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

24 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 10 days

In 10 days on 30 June 2072 at 10:21 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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