Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 4% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 30 June 2032 at 02:12.
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 ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1828"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2032 after 17 days on 22 July 2032 at 18:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 7 July 2032 at 14:41
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 15 July 2032 at 18:32
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 July 2032 at 18:51
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 July 2032 at 09:25
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 401 / 1354
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 401 of Meeus index or 1354 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 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 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠108.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠108.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.6°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 25 June 2032 at 14:55 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 July 2032 at 07:50 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 392 127 km
The Moon is 392 127 km (243 656 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 826 km (252 169 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after descending node on 2 July 2032 at 05:24 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 July 2032 at 18:15 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
15 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 at northern standstill
At 14:56 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.659°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.579° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 20 July 2032 at 03:40.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 7 July 2032 at 14:41 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.
