Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 5% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 20 July 2022 at 14:18.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".
Sturgeon Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2022 after 16 days on 12 August 2022 at 01:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 28 July 2022 at 17:55
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 5 August 2022 at 11:06
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 12 August 2022 at 01:36
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 19 August 2022 at 04:36
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 278 / 1231
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 278 of Meeus index or 1231 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 3 minutes. It is 41 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 44 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠178.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠178.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 10:22. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 13 July 2022 at 09:08 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 10 August 2022 at 17:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 406 276 km
This apogee Moon is 406 276 km (252 448 mi) away from Earth. It is 868 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 433 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after ascending node on 22 July 2022 at 09:21 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 5 August 2022 at 20:30 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
4 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 09:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.941°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.024° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 9 August 2022 at 06:36.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 28 July 2022 at 17:55 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.
