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Quarter* ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 39% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 39% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 19 May 2023 at 15:53.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1894".
Strawberry Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2023 after 8 days on 4 June 2023 at 03:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 27 May 2023 at 15:22
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 June 2023 at 03:42
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 June 2023 at 19:31
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 18 June 2023 at 04:37
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 289 / 1242
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 289 of Meeus index or 1242 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 minutes shorter 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 same as the mean
The length of the current synodic month is equal to the mean synodic month length. It is %hours_to_shortest% and %minutes_to_shortest% longer than the 21st century's shortest and %hours_to_longest% and %minutes_to_longest% shorter than the 21st century's longest synodic months.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠92.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠92.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠127.4°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 01:39. It is 14 days after previous perigee on 11 May 2023 at 04:57 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 6 June 2023 at 23:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 404 510 km
This apogee Moon is 404 510 km (251 351 mi) away from Earth. It is 898 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 199 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 17 May 2023 at 19:36 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 June 2023 at 06:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 22 May 2023 at 14:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.903°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.866° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 June 2023 at 16:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 4 June 2023 at 03:42 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.
