Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 11% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 21 June 2022 at 03:11.
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 ∠24° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1795"
Lunar disc appears visually 5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1795" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2022 after 18 days on 13 July 2022 at 18:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 29 June 2022 at 02:52
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 7 July 2022 at 02:14
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 July 2022 at 18:37
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 July 2022 at 14:18
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 277 / 1230
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final 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
10 days after point of perigee on 14 June 2022 at 23:21 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 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 June 2022 at 06:08 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 399 272 km
The Moon is 399 272 km (248 096 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 581 km (252 638 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 07:10 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 9 July 2022 at 17:28 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 07:10 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 15 June 2022 at 10:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.924°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.900° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 June 2022 at 04:06 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 29 June 2022 at 02:52 in ♋ Cancer 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.
