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

Waxing Crescent in Gemini

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 11 May 2059 at 19:15.

Flower Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 12 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.

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 ∠1839"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1898".

Lunation 734 / 1687

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 734 of Meeus index or 1687 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 20 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠53.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠53.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.4°.

Moon before apogee

6 days since point of perigee on 8 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 389 855 km

The Moon is 389 855 km (242 245 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 327 km (251 237 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 12 May 2059 at 04:37 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 May 2059 at 14:46 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.654° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.665° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.

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