Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 23% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 23% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 29 August 2040 at 11:16.
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 in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1902".
Harvest Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2040 after 19 days on 20 September 2040 at 17:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 6 September 2040 at 15:13
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 September 2040 at 02:07
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 September 2040 at 17:43
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 September 2040 at 04:41
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 502 / 1455
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 502 of Meeus index or 1455 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
Length of current 502 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 35 minutes longer than next lunation 503 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠199°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠199°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠226.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of perigee on 21 August 2040 at 03:58 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 2 September 2040 at 10:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 404 787 km
Moon is 404 787 km (251 523 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 547 km (251 995 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 28 August 2040 at 19:18 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 September 2040 at 06:11 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 03:14 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠26.397°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-26.529° in its southern standstill point on 15 September 2040 at 06:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 6 September 2040 at 15:13 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.