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

Waning Crescent in Gemini

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 15% 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 ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 9 July 2053 at 01:47.

Buck Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2053 after 18 days on 30 July 2053 at 17:06.

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 ∠1954"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1888".

Lunation 661 / 1614

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 661 of Meeus index or 1614 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.27 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 35 minutes and it is 40 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2053. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length and it is the shortest synodic month length of 21st century.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠352.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.2°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 1 July 2053 at 02:40 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 15 July 2053 at 07:11 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 366 870 km

The Moon is 366 870 km (227 962 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 527 km (222 157 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 6 July 2053 at 19:46 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 July 2053 at 09:41 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 30 June 2053 at 12:07 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.513° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠18.467° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 July 2053 at 09:16 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

20 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 3 days

In 3 days on 15 July 2053 at 17:26 in ♋ Cancer 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