Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 4% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 13 June 2018 at 19:43.
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 ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2018 after 12 days on 28 June 2018 at 04:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 20 June 2018 at 10:51
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 28 June 2018 at 04:53
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 6 July 2018 at 07:51
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 13 July 2018 at 02:48
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 228 / 1181
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 228 of Meeus index or 1181 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 5 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2018. It is 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 30 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠340.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠340.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 14 June 2018 at 23:55 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 30 June 2018 at 02:43 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 432 km
The Moon is 363 432 km (225 826 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 14 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 061 km (252 315 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 3 June 2018 at 12:39 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 June 2018 at 17:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 00:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.754°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.775° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 28 June 2018 at 14:30.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 28 June 2018 at 04:53 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
