Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 26% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 2 April 2030 at 22:02.
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 passing about ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1916".
Pink Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2030 after 9 days on 18 April 2030 at 03:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 April 2030 at 02:57
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2030 at 03:20
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 April 2030 at 18:39
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 2 May 2030 at 14:12
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 374 / 1327
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 374 of Meeus index or 1327 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 10 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2030. It is 1 minute longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠139°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠139°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠165.9°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 6 April 2030 at 18:47 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 April 2030 at 03:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 403 507 km
The Moon is 403 507 km (250 728 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 706 km (222 890 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 08:29 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 21 April 2030 at 09:46 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 08:53 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.881°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.812° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 21 April 2030 at 11:15.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 18 April 2030 at 03:20 in ♎ Libra 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.
