Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 3% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 9 June 2040 at 18:03.
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 ∠10° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1889".
Strawberry Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2040 after 13 days on 24 June 2040 at 19:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 17 June 2040 at 21:32
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 24 June 2040 at 19:19
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 1 July 2040 at 10:18
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 July 2040 at 09:15
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 500 / 1453
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 500 of Meeus index or 1453 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.63 days
Length of current 500 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 12 minutes. It is longer than next lunation 501 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠152°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠152°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠175.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of perigee on 28 May 2040 at 02:22 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 12 June 2040 at 14:18 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 405 215 km
Moon is 405 215 km (251 789 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 115 km (252 348 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 8 June 2040 at 10:51 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 22 June 2040 at 18:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 10:37 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠26.166°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-26.156° in its southern standstill point on 25 June 2040 at 04:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 24 June 2040 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.