Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 23% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 23% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 4 May 2038 at 09:19.
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 ∠16° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1856"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1856" and ∠1900".
Flower Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2038 after 9 days on 18 May 2038 at 18:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 12 May 2038 at 04:18
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 18 May 2038 at 18:23
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 25 May 2038 at 20:43
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 3 June 2038 at 00:24
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 474 / 1427
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 474 of Meeus index or 1427 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 5 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠198.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠198.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠226°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 2 May 2038 at 08:35 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 May 2038 at 13:35 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 386 257 km
The Moon is 386 257 km (240 009 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 249 km (223 227 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 02:33 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 21 May 2038 at 17:34 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 02:33 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 03:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.927°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.982° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 21 May 2038 at 19:28.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 18 May 2038 at 18:23 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.
