Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 39% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 39% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 5 September 2034 at 11:41.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1904".
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2034 after 21 days on 28 September 2034 at 02:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 12 September 2034 at 16:14
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 September 2034 at 18:39
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 September 2034 at 02:57
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 4 October 2034 at 18:05
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 428 / 1381
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 428 of Meeus index or 1381 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 428 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 21 minutes. It is 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than next lunation 429 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 23 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 46 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠73.9°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠73.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠108.6°. 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 after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 2 September 2034 at 15:31 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 18 September 2034 at 07:04 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 366 386 km
Moon is 366 386 km (227 662 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 970 km (251 637 mi).
Moon before ascending node
6 days after its descending node on 30 August 2034 at 22:58 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 September 2034 at 23:47 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
20 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 19:37 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠18.184°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-18.177° in its southern standstill point on 21 September 2034 at 02:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 12 September 2034 at 16:14 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.