Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 10% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 25 May 2036 at 19:17.
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 ∠14° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2036 after 11 days on 8 June 2036 at 21:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2036 at 11:34
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 June 2036 at 21:02
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 17 June 2036 at 01:03
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 24 June 2036 at 03:09
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.
Lunation 450 / 1403
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 450 of Meeus index or 1403 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 53 minutes. It is 46 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 4 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠318.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠318.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.2°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 09:17. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 16 May 2036 at 12:41 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 13 June 2036 at 05:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 364 390 km
This perigee Moon is 364 390 km (226 421 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 882 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 966 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 17 May 2036 at 18:30 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 May 2036 at 22:23 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 03:06 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠19.831°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-19.888° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 10 June 2036 at 13:44.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 8 June 2036 at 21:02 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.
