Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 30% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 30% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 8 April 2005 at 20:32.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1913".
Pink Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2005 after 9 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2005 at 14:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 April 2005 at 10:06
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 May 2005 at 06:24
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 May 2005 at 08:45
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 65 / 1018
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 65 of Meeus index or 1018 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 57 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠62.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠62.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠96.6°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 4 April 2005 at 11:10 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 April 2005 at 18:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 402 874 km
The Moon is 402 874 km (250 334 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 304 km (251 223 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 9 April 2005 at 02:59 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 23 April 2005 at 13:30 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 16:38 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.381°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.359° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 28 April 2005 at 15:55.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
