Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 8% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 15 June 2045 at 03:05.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1888".
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.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 21 June 2045 at 18:28
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 29 June 2045 at 07:16
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 7 July 2045 at 11:31
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 July 2045 at 10:28
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 562 / 1515
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 562 of Meeus index or 1515 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 24 minutes. It is 13 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠328°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠328°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.4°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 02:09. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 5 June 2045 at 03:25 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 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 located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 19 June 2045 at 04:27 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous 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.
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.
