Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 16% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 16% and growing larger. The 4 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 18 May 2034 at 03:12.
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 ∠17° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1916"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1916" and ∠1895".
Strawberry Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2034 after 11 days on 2 June 2034 at 03:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 May 2034 at 23:57
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 June 2034 at 03:54
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 June 2034 at 19:44
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 June 2034 at 10:26
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 425 / 1378
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 425 of Meeus index or 1378 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
Length of current 425 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 13 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2034. It is 36 minutes shorter than next lunation 426 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠25.4°. 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 after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 17 May 2034 at 14:28 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 30 May 2034 at 11:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 374 126 km
Moon is 374 126 km (232 471 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 002 km (252 278 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 14 May 2034 at 10:17 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 27 May 2034 at 04:57 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 20 May 2034 at 06:51 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.340°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.405° in the next southern standstill on 3 June 2034 at 15:58 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 11 days
After 11 days on 2 June 2034 at 03:54 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.