Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 28% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 28% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2036 after 9 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 5 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 after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 28 May 2036 at 09:17 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 June 2036 at 05:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 363 477 km
The Moon is 363 477 km (225 854 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 205 km (251 783 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 22:23 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 13 June 2036 at 20:47 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 22:23 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 28 May 2036 at 03:06 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.831°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.888° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 June 2036 at 13:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 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.
