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

Waxing Crescent in Gemini

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 2% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 1 day young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 29 May 2090 at 07:29.

Strawberry Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2090 after 12 days on 12 June 2090 at 05:18.

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 ∠1892"

Lunar disc appears visually 0% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1892" and ∠1892".

Lunation 1118 / 2071

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1118 of Meeus index or 2071 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.4 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 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 3 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠280.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠280.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 22 May 2090 at 05:49 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 June 2090 at 21:08 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 378 907 km

The Moon is 378 907 km (235 442 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 767 km (229 763 mi).

Moon before ascending node

6 days after descending node on 23 May 2090 at 16:27 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 6 June 2090 at 01:10 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 23:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.414°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.449° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 12 June 2090 at 22:32.

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 12 days

In 12 days on 12 June 2090 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius 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