Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
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 ♊ Gemini.
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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 12 April 2059 at 09:28.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1847"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1912".
Pink Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2059 after 11 days on 27 April 2059 at 19:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 19 April 2059 at 16:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 April 2059 at 19:17
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 5 May 2059 at 01:29
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2059 at 19:15
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 733 / 1686
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 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠30°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠30°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.2°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 10 April 2059 at 13:47 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 388 029 km
The Moon is 388 029 km (241 110 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 078 km (251 704 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 14 April 2059 at 19:11 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 5 April 2059 at 06:01 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.541°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.607° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 April 2059 at 23:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 27 April 2059 at 19:17 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
