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

Waning Crescent in Cancer

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 21% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

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 passing about ∠6° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 20 August 2049 at 07:10.

Harvest Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2049 after 19 days on 11 September 2049 at 17:04.

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 ∠1778"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1898".

Lunation 613 / 1566

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 613 of Meeus index or 1566 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.63 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 11 minutes and it is 25 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠185.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠185.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠210.2°.

Moon before apogee

10 days since point of perigee on 12 August 2049 at 17:06 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 25 August 2049 at 10:27 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 403 159 km

The Moon is 403 159 km (250 511 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 054 km (252 310 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 20 August 2049 at 22:31 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 September 2049 at 10:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 22 August 2049 at 00:08 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.800° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.652° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 September 2049 at 12:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 28 August 2049 at 11:18 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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