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
The length of the 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 the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠342.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠342.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠358.1°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 5 August 2001 at 21:05 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 August 2001 at 05:43 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 371 786 km
The Moon is 371 786 km (231 017 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 159 km (221 928 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:05 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 28 August 2001 at 09:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 17:05 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 1 August 2001 at 18:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.427°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.488° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 August 2001 at 03:52 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 19 August 2001 at 02:55 in ♌ Leo 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.
