Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 20% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 20% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 24 May 2047 at 20:27.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♌ Leo
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1867"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1867" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2047 after 9 days on 8 June 2047 at 02:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 1 June 2047 at 11:54
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 June 2047 at 02:05
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 15 June 2047 at 07:45
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 23 June 2047 at 10:36
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 586 / 1539
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 586 of Meeus index or 1539 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes. It is 1 hour and 55 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 1 hour and 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠210.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠210.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠240°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 21 May 2047 at 20:02 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 6 June 2047 at 09:14 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 383 906 km
The Moon is 383 906 km (238 548 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 058 km (224 351 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 28 May 2047 at 08:07 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 10 June 2047 at 02:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
15 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
3 days since the previous standstill on 26 May 2047 at 04:23 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.322°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.326° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 June 2047 at 06:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 8 June 2047 at 02:05 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
