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

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 13% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 19 May 2061 at 11:03.

Strawberry Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2061 after 11 days on 3 June 2061 at 06:09.

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 ∠1946"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1895".

Lunation 759 / 1712

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 759 of Meeus index or 1712 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.29 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute and it is 7 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2061. 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠358.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠358.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠13.9°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 19 May 2061 at 12:47 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 June 2061 at 04:48 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 368 343 km

The Moon is 368 343 km (228 878 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 301 km (252 464 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 16 May 2061 at 19:55 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 May 2061 at 16:23 in ♎ Libra.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 21 May 2061 at 17:45 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.328° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.272° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 June 2061 at 22:36 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

5 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 11 days

In 11 days on 3 June 2061 at 06:09 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