Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 18% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 29 April 2014 at 06:14.
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 ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1785"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2014 after 11 days on 14 May 2014 at 19:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 7 May 2014 at 03:15
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 14 May 2014 at 19:16
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 May 2014 at 12:59
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 May 2014 at 18:40
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 177 / 1130
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 177 of Meeus index or 1130 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠76.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠76.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠112.5°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 23 April 2014 at 00:27 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 6 May 2014 at 10:22 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 401 448 km
The Moon is 401 448 km (249 448 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 319 km (251 232 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 28 April 2014 at 11:36 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2014 at 22:06 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 2 May 2014 at 15:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.961°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.992° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 May 2014 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 14 May 2014 at 19:16 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.
