Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 7% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 28 July 2035 at 02:55.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1891".
Sturgeon Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2035 after 17 days on 19 August 2035 at 01:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 3 August 2035 at 17:12
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 10 August 2035 at 21:52
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 19 August 2035 at 01:00
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 26 August 2035 at 09:08
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 439 / 1392
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 439 of Meeus index or 1392 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 12 minutes. It is 1 hour and 36 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠9.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠9.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.6°.
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of apogee on 17 July 2035 at 17:31 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 August 2035 at 04:06 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 363 455 km
The Moon is 363 455 km (225 840 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 719 km (224 140 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 23 July 2035 at 13:46 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 August 2035 at 09:20 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 09:14 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.787°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.761° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 14 August 2035 at 22:59.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 3 August 2035 at 17:12 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.
