Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 8% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 6 June 2035 at 03:21.

Strawberry Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2035 after 12 days on 20 June 2035 at 19:37.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1890".

Lunation 438 / 1391

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 438 of Meeus index or 1391 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.28 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 39 minutes and it is 33 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2035. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠354.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠354.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠9.1°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 6 June 2035 at 11:36 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 June 2035 at 12:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 365 083 km

The Moon is 365 083 km (226 852 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 401 km (252 526 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 30 May 2035 at 10:00 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 11 June 2035 at 20:42 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 7 June 2035 at 10:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.820° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.862° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 June 2035 at 08:16 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 20 June 2035 at 19:37 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov