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 2% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 6 July 2083 at 20:33.

Buck Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2083 after 15 days on 29 July 2083 at 01:00.

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 ∠1784"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1784" and ∠1888".

Lunation 1032 / 1985

The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1032 of Meeus index or 1985 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 17 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠203.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠203.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 10 July 2083 at 10:51 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 July 2083 at 06:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 401 883 km

The Moon is 401 883 km (249 719 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 756 km (226 649 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 1 July 2083 at 19:10 in ♒ Aquarius 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 16 July 2083 at 06:07 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 12 July 2083 at 11:43 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.931° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.954° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 July 2083 at 00:18 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 1 day

In 1 day on 14 July 2083 at 23:54 in ♋ Cancer 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