Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 4% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 13 June 2039 at 14:16.
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 is entering ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2039 after 16 days on 6 July 2039 at 02:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 21 June 2039 at 17:21
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 29 June 2039 at 11:17
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 6 July 2039 at 02:03
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 13 July 2039 at 03:38
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 487 / 1440
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 487 of Meeus index or 1440 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 10 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 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠176.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠176.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.2°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 15:56. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 6 June 2039 at 12:01 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 4 July 2039 at 20:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 406 283 km
This apogee Moon is 406 283 km (252 453 mi) away from Earth. It is 875 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 426 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 7 June 2039 at 04:24 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 June 2039 at 00:51 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 8 June 2039 at 11:24 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.703°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.701° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 June 2039 at 16:02 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 21 June 2039 at 17:21 in ♊ Gemini 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.
