Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 18% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 23 April 2020 at 02:26.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1845"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1845" and ∠1906".
Flower Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2020 after 9 days on 7 May 2020 at 10:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 30 April 2020 at 20:38
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 7 May 2020 at 10:45
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 14 May 2020 at 14:03
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 22 May 2020 at 17:39
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 251 / 1204
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 251 of Meeus index or 1204 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 13 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 34 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠201.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠201.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠229.8°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 20 April 2020 at 19:01 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 May 2020 at 03:03 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 388 405 km
The Moon is 388 405 km (241 344 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 656 km (223 480 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 17:54 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 10 May 2020 at 09:01 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 17:54 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 13 April 2020 at 21:03 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.805°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠23.935° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 April 2020 at 15:23 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 7 May 2020 at 10:45 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.
