Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 15 June 2045 at 03:05.

Strawberry Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2045 after 11 days on 29 June 2045 at 07:16.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1888".

Lunation 562 / 1515

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 562 of Meeus index or 1515 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.31 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠328°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠328° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.4°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 02:09 about 11 days since last apogee on 5 June 2045 at 03:25 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next apogee on 2 July 2045 at 18:04 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 362 268 km

This perigee Moon is 362 268 km (225 103 mi) away from Earth. It is 240 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 088 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 5 June 2045 at 23:31 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 June 2045 at 04:27 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 15 June 2045 at 03:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.696° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.699° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 June 2045 at 04:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 29 June 2045 at 07:16 in ♑ Capricorn 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov