Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 26% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 30 August 2059 at 01:05.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1902".
Harvest Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2059 after 20 days on 21 September 2059 at 17:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 6 September 2059 at 23:01
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 15 September 2059 at 00:44
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 21 September 2059 at 17:18
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 28 September 2059 at 12:54
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 737 / 1690
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 737 of Meeus index or 1690 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
Length of current 737 lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than next lunation 738 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠149.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠149.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠173.7°. 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°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 24 August 2059 at 02:14 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 September 2059 at 16:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 389 862 km
Moon is 389 862 km (242 249 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 6 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 622 km (252 663 mi).
Moon after ascending node
3 days after its ascending node on 28 August 2059 at 20:26 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 12 September 2059 at 09:18 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 10:58 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠26.870°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-27.003° in its southern standstill point on 16 September 2059 at 04:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 6 September 2059 at 23:01 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.