Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 4% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% 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 30 May 2022 at 11:30.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2022 after 12 days on 14 June 2022 at 11:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 7 June 2022 at 14:48
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 June 2022 at 11:52
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 21 June 2022 at 03:11
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2022 at 02:52
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 277 / 1230
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 277 of Meeus index or 1230 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2022. It is 19 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠155.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠178.8°.
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of perigee on 17 May 2022 at 15:23 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 June 2022 at 01:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 405 476 km
The Moon is 405 476 km (251 951 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 191 km (252 395 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after ascending node on 29 May 2022 at 02:33 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 12 June 2022 at 10:02 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 22:32 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.943°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.924° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 15 June 2022 at 10:59.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 14 June 2022 at 11:52 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.
