Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 38% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 38% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 9 July 2004 at 07:34.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1811"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2004 after 21 days on 31 July 2004 at 18:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 July 2004 at 11:24
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 July 2004 at 03:37
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 31 July 2004 at 18:05
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 7 August 2004 at 22:01
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 55 / 1008
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 55 of Meeus index or 1008 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes. It is 57 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 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠181.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠205.1°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 1 July 2004 at 23:00 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 July 2004 at 21:08 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 395 732 km
The Moon is 395 732 km (245 896 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 192 km (252 396 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 28 June 2004 at 08:37 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 11 July 2004 at 00:59 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
8 days since the previous standstill on 2 July 2004 at 03:43 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.538°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.543° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 July 2004 at 20:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 17 July 2004 at 11:24 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.
