Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 14% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 15 August 2017 at 01:15.
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 in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1896".
Harvest Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2017 after 18 days on 6 September 2017 at 07:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 21 August 2017 at 18:30
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 August 2017 at 08:13
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 6 September 2017 at 07:03
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 13 September 2017 at 06:25
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 217 / 1170
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 217 of Meeus index or 1170 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 45 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 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 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠27.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠27.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠49.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 13:14. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 2 August 2017 at 17:55 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 30 August 2017 at 11:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 366 129 km
This perigee Moon is 366 129 km (227 502 mi) away from Earth. It is 3 621 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 4 227 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 8 August 2017 at 10:56 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 August 2017 at 10:34 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
24 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 at northern standstill
At 06:50 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.381°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.393° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 1 September 2017 at 02:03.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 21 August 2017 at 18:30 in ♌ Leo 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.
