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 2% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 24 June 2095 at 21:55.

Buck Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2095 after 16 days on 17 July 2095 at 08:31.

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 ∠1900"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1887".

Lunation 1180 / 2133

The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1180 of Meeus index or 2133 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 38 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 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠47.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠47.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠76.3°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 25 June 2095 at 17:27 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 July 2095 at 01:10 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 377 332 km

The Moon is 377 332 km (234 463 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 250 km (251 189 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 06:21 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 14 July 2095 at 15:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 18 June 2095 at 23:27 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.916° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.901° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 July 2095 at 21:09 in ♋ Cancer.

New draconic month

At 06:21 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 1 day

In 1 day on 1 July 2095 at 19:54 in ♋ Cancer 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