Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 18% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% 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 8 June 2007 at 11:43.
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 ∠0° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1890".
Strawberry Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2007 after 19 days on 30 June 2007 at 13:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 15 June 2007 at 03:13
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 June 2007 at 13:15
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 30 June 2007 at 13:49
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 7 July 2007 at 16:54
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 91 / 1044
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 91 of Meeus index or 1044 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 46 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2007. It is 1 hour and 5 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 4 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠19.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠38.7°.
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of apogee on 27 May 2007 at 22:01 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 June 2007 at 17:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 363 358 km
The Moon is 363 358 km (225 780 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 778 km (226 041 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 8 June 2007 at 00:35 in ♓ Pisces. 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 20 June 2007 at 19:32 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 2 June 2007 at 09:31 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.219°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.212° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 June 2007 at 08:31 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 15 June 2007 at 03:13 in ♊ Gemini 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.
