Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 18% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 12 August 2001 at 07:53.
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.
Moon is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1928"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1895".
Harvest Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2001 after 18 days on 2 September 2001 at 21:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 19 August 2001 at 02:55
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 August 2001 at 19:55
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 2 September 2001 at 21:43
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 September 2001 at 19:00
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.
Lunation 19 / 972
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 19 of Meeus index or 972 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
Length of current 19 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 11 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2001. It is 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 20 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠342.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠342.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠358.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of apogee on 5 August 2001 at 21:05 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 19 August 2001 at 05:43 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 371 786 km
Moon is 371 786 km (231 017 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 159 km (221 928 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:05 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet descending node on 28 August 2001 at 09:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 17:05 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days after previous South standstill on 1 August 2001 at 18:05 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.427°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.488° in the next northern standstill on 16 August 2001 at 03:52 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 19 August 2001 at 02:55 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.