Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 16% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 16% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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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 21 June 2003 at 14:45.
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 in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2003 after 18 days on 13 July 2003 at 19:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2003 at 18:39
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 July 2003 at 02:32
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 July 2003 at 19:21
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 July 2003 at 07:01
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 42 / 995
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 42 of Meeus index or 995 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠205.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠205.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠234.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 02:25. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 12 June 2003 at 23:18 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 10 July 2003 at 22:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 405 233 km
This apogee Moon is 405 233 km (251 800 mi) away from Earth. It is 175 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 476 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 12 June 2003 at 21:16 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 June 2003 at 14:34 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 15 June 2003 at 13:28 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.477°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.455° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 June 2003 at 21:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 29 June 2003 at 18:39 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.
