Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 1% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 25 May 2017 at 19:44.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1894".
Strawberry Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2017 after 14 days on 9 June 2017 at 13:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2017 at 12:42
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 June 2017 at 13:10
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 June 2017 at 11:33
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 June 2017 at 02:31
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 215 / 1168
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 215 of Meeus index or 1168 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.28 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 46 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2017. It is 29 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 5 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 11 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠356°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠356°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠11°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 01:23. It is 13 days after previous apogee on 12 May 2017 at 19:51 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 13 days, until point of next apogee on 8 June 2017 at 22:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 357 210 km
This perigee Moon is 357 210 km (221 960 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest perigee of 2017. It is 5 298 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 785 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 19 May 2017 at 01:30 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 31 May 2017 at 11:56 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 14 May 2017 at 20:29 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.302°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠19.362° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 May 2017 at 23:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 14 days
In 14 days on 9 June 2017 at 13:10 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.
