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 37% 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 in ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 23 August 2084 at 03:34.

Harvest Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2084 after 20 days on 14 September 2084 at 09:15.

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 ∠1781"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1781" and ∠1899".

Lunation 1046 / 1999

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1046 of Meeus index or 1999 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.61 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 9 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 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 6 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 ∠232.5°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 14 August 2084 at 14:11 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 August 2084 at 17:37 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 402 427 km

The Moon is 402 427 km (250 057 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 242 km (251 806 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 13 August 2084 at 17:30 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 27 August 2084 at 05:21 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon at northern standstill

At 17:51 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠25.538°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-25.423° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 7 September 2084 at 23:36.

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 6 days

In 6 days on 31 August 2084 at 07:45 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