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
Length of current 401 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter than next lunation 402 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 25 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 38 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠108.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠108.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠140.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of perigee on 25 June 2032 at 14:55 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 July 2032 at 07:50 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 392 127 km
Moon is 392 127 km (243 656 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 826 km (252 169 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 2 July 2032 at 05:24 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 July 2032 at 18:15 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 14:56 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠19.659°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-19.579° in its southern standstill point on 20 July 2032 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 7 July 2032 at 14:41 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.