Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 3% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 10 June 2002 at 23:47.
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 ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1882"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1882" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2002 after 12 days on 24 June 2002 at 21:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 18 June 2002 at 00:29
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2002 at 21:42
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 July 2002 at 17:19
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 July 2002 at 10:26
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.
Lunation 30 / 983
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 30 of Meeus index or 983 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes longer 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 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠268.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠268.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠300.4°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 4 June 2002 at 12:58 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 June 2002 at 07:24 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 380 802 km
The Moon is 380 802 km (236 619 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 308 km (229 477 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 10 June 2002 at 20:00 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 23 June 2002 at 18:39 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 14:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠25.058°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-25.048° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 25 June 2002 at 11:49.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 24 June 2002 at 21:42 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
