Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 28% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 17 August 2033 at 09:43.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1902" and ∠1896".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2033 after 20 days on 9 September 2033 at 02:20.
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.
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 415 of Meeus index or 1368 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 27 minutes. It is 2 hours and 33 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 20 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠108.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠140.6°.
6 days after point of perigee on 12 August 2033 at 21:22 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 28 August 2033 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra.
The Moon is 376 853 km (234 166 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 762 km (252 129 mi).
5 days after descending node on 14 August 2033 at 11:54 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 August 2033 at 07:12 in ♎ Libra.
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
At 17:46 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.456°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.364° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 3 September 2033 at 09:54.
In 5 days on 24 August 2033 at 21:40 in ♌ Leo 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.