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

Waning Crescent in Cancer

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 27% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 25 August 2092 at 00:32.

Harvest Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2092 after 19 days on 15 September 2092 at 20:33.

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 ∠1773"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1900".

Lunation 1145 / 2098

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1145 of Meeus index or 2098 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 19 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 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠246.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠246.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.2°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 25 August 2092 at 18:58 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 September 2092 at 07:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 404 181 km

The Moon is 404 181 km (251 146 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 784 km (229 773 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 16 August 2092 at 14:00 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 August 2092 at 21:39 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

13 days since the last southern standstill on 14 August 2092 at 05:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.084° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠20.103° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 August 2092 at 04:01 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 1 September 2092 at 22:14 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