Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 5% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 3 June 2019 at 10:02.
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 ∠12° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1933"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1933" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2019 after 11 days on 17 June 2019 at 08:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 10 June 2019 at 05:59
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 June 2019 at 08:31
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 25 June 2019 at 09:46
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 2 July 2019 at 19:16
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 240 / 1193
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 240 of Meeus index or 1193 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 14 minutes. It is 1 hour and 18 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 3 hours and 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠296.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠296.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠321.4°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 26 May 2019 at 13:27 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 June 2019 at 23:21 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 370 892 km
The Moon is 370 892 km (230 462 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 508 km (228 980 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 22:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 19 June 2019 at 01:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 22:46 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 12:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.361°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.381° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 18 June 2019 at 15:33.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 17 June 2019 at 08:31 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.
