Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 13% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 13% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 28 May 2014 at 18:40.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2014 after 11 days on 13 June 2014 at 04:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 5 June 2014 at 20:39
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 June 2014 at 04:11
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 19 June 2014 at 18:39
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 27 June 2014 at 08:09
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 178 / 1131
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 178 of Meeus index or 1131 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes. 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠112.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠112.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠144.1°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 18 May 2014 at 11:58 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 June 2014 at 04:25 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 404 439 km
The Moon is 404 439 km (251 307 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 956 km (251 628 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 25 May 2014 at 17:56 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 9 June 2014 at 05:36 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
19 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
2 days since the previous standstill on 30 May 2014 at 00:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.023°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.033° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 June 2014 at 06:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 13 June 2014 at 04:11 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
