Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 8% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and growing larger. The 3 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 22 May 2020 at 17:39.
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 ∠7° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1857"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1857" and ∠1894".
Strawberry Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2020 after 11 days on 5 June 2020 at 19:12.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 30 May 2020 at 03:30
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 June 2020 at 19:12
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 13 June 2020 at 06:24
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 21 June 2020 at 06:41
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 252 / 1205
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 252 of Meeus index or 1205 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.54 days
Length of current 252 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 3 minutes. It is 2 hours and 11 minutes longer than next lunation 253 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 19 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 44 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠229.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠229.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠263.8°. 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 apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 18 May 2020 at 07:45 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 3 June 2020 at 03:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 385 891 km
Moon is 385 891 km (239 782 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 364 366 km (226 407 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after its ascending node on 24 May 2020 at 21:34 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 6 June 2020 at 18:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
1 day after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 21:16 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠24.055°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-24.069° in its southern standstill point on 7 June 2020 at 16:22 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 5 June 2020 at 19:12 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.