Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 21% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 21% 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 15 May 2018 at 11:48.
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 ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1896".
Flower Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2018 after 10 days on 29 May 2018 at 14:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 22 May 2018 at 03:49
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 May 2018 at 14:20
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 6 June 2018 at 18:32
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 13 June 2018 at 19:43
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 227 / 1180
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 227 of Meeus index or 1180 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 227 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 55 minutes. It is 50 minutes longer than next lunation 228 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 20 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠321.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠321.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠340.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 17 May 2018 at 21:06 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 14 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 2 June 2018 at 16:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 302 km
Moon is 363 302 km (225 745 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 14 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 316 km (251 852 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after its descending node on 7 May 2018 at 10:24 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 20 May 2018 at 13:13 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 18 May 2018 at 15:02 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠20.652°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-20.727° in the next southern standstill on 1 June 2018 at 07:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 29 May 2018 at 14:20 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.