Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 9 August 2045 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 25 days old Moon is in Cancer.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 15% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 5 August 2045 at 23:57.
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 passing first ∠2° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1941" and ∠1893".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2045 after 18 days on 27 August 2045 at 14:08.
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.
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 563 of Meeus index or 1516 from Brown series.
Length of current 563 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 11 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2045. It is 37 minutes shorter than next lunation 564 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠345.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠0.7°. 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°).
10 days after point of apogee on 30 July 2045 at 02:00 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 12 August 2045 at 16:40 in ♌ Leo.
Moon is 369 193 km (229 406 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 3 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 357 292 km (222 011 mi).
10 days after its ascending node on 30 July 2045 at 07:42 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 August 2045 at 21:20 in ♌ Leo.
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
1 day after previous North standstill on 8 August 2045 at 22:31 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.798°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.803° in the next southern standstill on 21 August 2045 at 15:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 3 days on 12 August 2045 at 17:39 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.