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

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 30% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 5 days 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 15 April 2094 at 01:37.

Pink Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2094 after 10 days on 30 April 2094 at 13:54.

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 ∠1796"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1909".

Lunation 1166 / 2119

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1166 of Meeus index or 2119 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 32 minutes and it is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠45.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠45.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠74.7°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 12 April 2094 at 03:26 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 April 2094 at 23:58 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 399 128 km

The Moon is 399 128 km (248 007 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 400 km (251 283 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 16:57 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 4 May 2094 at 20:35 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at northern standstill

At 20:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.077°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.185° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 5 May 2094 at 01:36.

New draconic month

At 16:57 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 30 April 2094 at 13:54 in ♏ Scorpio 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