Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 33% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 33% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 25 April 2047 at 04:40.
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 ∠21° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1855"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1855" and ∠1904".
Flower Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2047 after 8 days on 9 May 2047 at 18:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2047 at 03:26
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 9 May 2047 at 18:24
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 16 May 2047 at 16:46
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 May 2047 at 20:27
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 585 / 1538
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 585 of Meeus index or 1538 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.66 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠185.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠185.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.1°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 24 April 2047 at 13:11 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 May 2047 at 02:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 386 362 km
The Moon is 386 362 km (240 074 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 602 km (222 204 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 06:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 13 May 2047 at 18:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 28 April 2047 at 23:17 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.418°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.371° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 May 2047 at 19:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 9 May 2047 at 18:24 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
