Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 17% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 12 May 2002 at 10:45.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1893"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1893" and ∠1897".
Flower Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2002 after 9 days on 26 May 2002 at 11:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2002 at 19:42
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 May 2002 at 11:51
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 June 2002 at 00:05
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 10 June 2002 at 23:47
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 29 / 982
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 29 of Meeus index or 982 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
Length of current 29 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than next lunation 30 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 17 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 46 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠233.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠233.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠268.1°. 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
8 days after point of apogee on 7 May 2002 at 19:15 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 May 2002 at 15:31 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 378 595 km
Moon is 378 595 km (235 248 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 985 km (226 791 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 14 May 2002 at 13:00 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 27 May 2002 at 09:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 07:53 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠25.039°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-25.056° in its southern standstill point on 29 May 2002 at 02:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 26 May 2002 at 11:51 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.