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 11% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 20 July 2060 at 13:24.

Sturgeon Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2060 after 18 days on 12 August 2060 at 00:51.

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 ∠1926"

Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1889".

Lunation 748 / 1701

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 748 of Meeus index or 1701 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes and it is 2 hours and 15 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 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠54.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠54.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠84.5°.

Moon after perigee

4 days since point of perigee on 20 July 2060 at 04:58 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 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 August 2060 at 08:10 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 372 077 km

The Moon is 372 077 km (231 198 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 228 km (251 176 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 20 July 2060 at 22:57 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 3 August 2060 at 14:41 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 12 July 2060 at 09:29 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.639° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠27.680° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 July 2060 at 08:10 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 27 July 2060 at 12:49 in ♌ Leo 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