Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 18% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 1 July 2021 at 21:11.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2021 after 18 days on 24 July 2021 at 02:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 July 2021 at 01:17
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 July 2021 at 10:11
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 July 2021 at 02:37
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 31 July 2021 at 13:16
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 265 / 1218
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 265 of Meeus index or 1218 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
Length of current 265 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than next lunation 266 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 23 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠202.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠230.1°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 14:48, this is 12 days after last perigee on 23 June 2021 at 09:58 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 21 July 2021 at 10:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 405 342 km
This apogee Moon is 405 342 km (251 868 mi) away from Earth. It is 66 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 367 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after its descending node on 23 June 2021 at 06:07 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 July 2021 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days after previous South standstill on 25 June 2021 at 05:49 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.631°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.622° in the next northern standstill on 9 July 2021 at 10:05 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 10 July 2021 at 01:17 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.