Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 3% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 May 2025 at 03:02.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1938"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2025 after 13 days on 11 June 2025 at 07:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 June 2025 at 03:41
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 June 2025 at 07:44
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 18 June 2025 at 19:19
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 25 June 2025 at 10:31
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 314 / 1267
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 314 of Meeus index or 1267 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2025. 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠17.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠17.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.2°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 26 May 2025 at 01:37 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 June 2025 at 10:42 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 369 854 km
The Moon is 369 854 km (229 817 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 553 km (251 999 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after ascending node on 22 May 2025 at 08:05 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 June 2025 at 01:33 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 16:16 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.442°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.394° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 11 June 2025 at 23:54.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 11 June 2025 at 07:44 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.
