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

Waning Crescent in Taurus

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 9 June 2053 at 14:19.

Buck Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2053 after 16 days on 1 July 2053 at 02:01.

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 ∠1947"

Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1947" and ∠1889".

Lunation 660 / 1613

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 660 of Meeus index or 1613 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.3 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 8 minutes and it is 33 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 33 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠336.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠336.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠352.3°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 3 June 2053 at 22:38 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 June 2053 at 21:48 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 368 083 km

The Moon is 368 083 km (228 716 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 537 km (222 163 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 9 June 2053 at 18:30 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 June 2053 at 05:29 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 3 June 2053 at 04:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.483° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.495° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 June 2053 at 21:27 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 16 June 2053 at 10:51 in ♊ Gemini 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