Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 24% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 11 August 2020 at 16:45.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1822"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1895".
Harvest Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2020 after 18 days on 2 September 2020 at 05:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 19 August 2020 at 02:41
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 August 2020 at 17:58
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 2 September 2020 at 05:22
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 10 September 2020 at 09:26
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 254 / 1207
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 254 of Meeus index or 1207 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 9 minutes. It is 50 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 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠296.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠296.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠322.3°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 9 August 2020 at 13:51 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 August 2020 at 10:59 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 393 338 km
The Moon is 393 338 km (244 409 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 513 km (225 877 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♊ Gemini at 19:22 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 27 August 2020 at 11:52 in ♐ Sagittarius.
New draconic month
At 19:22 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 1 August 2020 at 08:47 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.087°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠24.152° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 August 2020 at 20:40 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 19 August 2020 at 02:41 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
