Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 23% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 23% and growing larger. The 5 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 4 May 2019 at 22:45.
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 ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1900".
Flower Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2019 after 9 days on 18 May 2019 at 21:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 May 2019 at 01:12
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 18 May 2019 at 21:11
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 May 2019 at 16:33
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 3 June 2019 at 10:02
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 239 / 1192
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 239 of Meeus index or 1192 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 2 minutes longer 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 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠263°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠263°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠296.1°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 28 April 2019 at 18:20 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 May 2019 at 21:53 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 369 149 km
The Moon is 369 149 km (229 379 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 017 km (229 297 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 18:50 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 22 May 2019 at 19:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 18:50 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 05:46 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.243°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.313° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 22 May 2019 at 06:41.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 18 May 2019 at 21:11 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
