Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 14% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% 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 10 June 2023 at 19:31.
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 ∠10° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2023 after 18 days on 3 July 2023 at 11:39.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 18 June 2023 at 04:37
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 26 June 2023 at 07:50
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 3 July 2023 at 11:39
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 July 2023 at 01:48
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 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final 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 after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 6 June 2023 at 23:07 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 June 2023 at 18:30 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 380 488 km
The Moon is 380 488 km (236 424 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 385 km (251 895 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 00:05 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 28 June 2023 at 12:22 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 00:05 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 5 June 2023 at 16:21 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.866°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.833° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2023 at 21:07 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 18 June 2023 at 04:37 in ♊ Gemini 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.
