Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 7% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 23 May 2060 at 03:01.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠6° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2060 after 17 days on 14 June 2060 at 03:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 29 May 2060 at 18:23
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 6 June 2060 at 00:44
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 14 June 2060 at 03:37
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 June 2060 at 08:44
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 746 / 1699
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 746 of Meeus index or 1699 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 13 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2060. It is 22 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 4 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠13.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 20:38. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 12 May 2060 at 04:06 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 8 June 2060 at 19:26 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 362 061 km
This perigee Moon is 362 061 km (224 974 mi) away from Earth. It is 447 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 295 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 15:43 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 10 June 2060 at 08:48 in ♏ Scorpio.
New draconic month
At 15:43 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 18 May 2060 at 20:56 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.700°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.668° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 May 2060 at 15:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 29 May 2060 at 18:23 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.
