Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 1% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and growing larger. The 1 day young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 17 June 2061 at 18:03.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 14 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2061 after 14 days on 2 July 2061 at 20:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 24 June 2061 at 16:54
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 July 2061 at 20:52
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 July 2061 at 10:23
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 July 2061 at 01:10
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 760 / 1713
The Moon is 1 day young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 760 of Meeus index or 1713 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.3 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 7 minutes. It is 1 hour and 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 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 32 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠13.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.2°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 16 June 2061 at 22:16 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 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 June 2061 at 12:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 366 497 km
The Moon is 366 497 km (227 731 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 739 km (252 115 mi).
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 13 June 2061 at 01:57 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 June 2061 at 18:12 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 03:42 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.260°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.248° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 2 July 2061 at 03:48.
Syzygy in 14 days
In 14 days on 2 July 2061 at 20:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
