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 30% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 5 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 ∠19° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 26 April 2036 at 09:33.

Flower Moon after 8 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2036 after 8 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09.

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 ∠1970"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1904".

Lunation 449 / 1402

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 449 of Meeus index or 1402 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 51 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠292.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠292.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠318.9°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 08:26 about 12 days since last apogee on 18 April 2036 at 17:40 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 16 May 2036 at 12:41 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 369 111 km

This perigee Moon is 369 111 km (229 355 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 603 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 245 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 20 April 2036 at 16:14 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 May 2036 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 30 April 2036 at 19:06 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.658° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.758° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 May 2036 at 05:17 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 8 days

In 8 days on 10 May 2036 at 08:09 in ♏ Scorpio 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