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

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

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 in ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 13 June 2094 at 00:03.

Strawberry Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2094 after 13 days on 28 June 2094 at 09:58.

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 ∠1798"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1889".

Lunation 1168 / 2121

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1168 of Meeus index or 2121 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.56 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 33 minutes and it is 1 hour and 27 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠109.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠109.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠141.9°.

Moon before apogee

11 days since point of perigee on 2 June 2094 at 22:20 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 June 2094 at 13:22 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 398 577 km

The Moon is 398 577 km (247 664 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 846 km (251 560 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 04:44 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 28 June 2094 at 10:31 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at northern standstill

At 13:39 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.310°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.311° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 28 June 2094 at 17:52.

New draconic month

At 04:44 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 13 days

In 13 days on 28 June 2094 at 09:58 in ♑ Capricorn 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