Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase on 2 August 2062 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 26 days old Moon is in Cancer.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 29 July 2062 at 10:04.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1891".
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2062 after 17 days on 20 August 2062 at 03:55.
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.
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 773 of Meeus index or 1726 from Brown series.
Length of current 773 lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes shorter than next lunation 774 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 57 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 13 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠358.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠14°. 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°).
13 days after point of apogee on 20 July 2062 at 10:49 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 August 2062 at 04:41 in ♌ Leo.
Moon is 363 906 km (226 121 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 393 km (222 695 mi).
7 days after its ascending node on 26 July 2062 at 00:55 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 August 2062 at 17:38 in ♍ Virgo.
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
At 02:58 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠28.542°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-28.592° in its southern standstill point on 15 August 2062 at 06:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
After 2 days on 5 August 2062 at 00:40 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.