Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 30 August 2051 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 24 days old Moon is in Gemini.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 31% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 28 August 2051 at 17:29.
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 ∠0° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1914" and ∠1901".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2051 after 20 days on 20 September 2051 at 10:11.
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 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 638 of Meeus index or 1591 from Brown series.
Length of current 638 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 28 minutes. It is 2 hours and 46 minutes shorter than next lunation 639 length.
Length of current synodic month is 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠104.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠137°. 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°).
6 days after point of perigee on 24 August 2051 at 08:43 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 September 2051 at 04:18 in ♏ Scorpio.
Moon is 374 460 km (232 679 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 9 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 670 km (252 072 mi).
4 days after its descending node on 25 August 2051 at 20:56 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 8 September 2051 at 15:18 in ♎ Libra.
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
At 01:37 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠18.858°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-18.758° in its southern standstill point on 13 September 2051 at 15:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 5 days on 5 September 2051 at 04:33 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.