Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 9% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 21 May 2031 at 07:17.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer 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 ∠1895".
Strawberry Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2031 after 11 days on 5 June 2031 at 11:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 29 May 2031 at 11:20
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 5 June 2031 at 11:58
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 12 June 2031 at 02:20
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 June 2031 at 22:25
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 388 / 1341
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 388 of Meeus index or 1341 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 7 minutes. It is 9 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠139.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠139.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠165.9°.
Moon before perigee
15 days after point of perigee on 9 May 2031 at 07:28 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 May 2031 at 02:08 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 405 471 km
The Moon is 405 471 km (251 948 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 723 km (252 105 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 21 May 2031 at 03:26 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 June 2031 at 09:20 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
16 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 22 May 2031 at 19:41 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.091°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.099° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 June 2031 at 17:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 5 June 2031 at 11:58 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.
