Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
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 ♊ Gemini.
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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 18 June 2025 at 19:19.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2025 after 17 days on 10 July 2025 at 20:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 25 June 2025 at 10:31
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 July 2025 at 19:30
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 July 2025 at 20:37
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 18 July 2025 at 00:38
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 314 / 1267
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 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 at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 04:43. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 7 June 2025 at 10:42 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 5 July 2025 at 02:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 363 178 km
This perigee Moon is 363 178 km (225 668 mi) away from Earth. It is 670 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 7 178 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 18 June 2025 at 09:41 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 1 July 2025 at 03:46 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
5 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 before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 11 June 2025 at 23:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.394°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.402° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 June 2025 at 01:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 25 June 2025 at 10:31 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.
