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

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

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 is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 28 April 2063 at 14:52.

Flower Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2063 after 10 days on 12 May 2063 at 13:11.

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 ∠1936"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1936" and ∠1903".

Lunation 783 / 1736

The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 783 of Meeus index or 1736 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes and it is 2 hours and 16 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 20 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠270.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠270.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠301.9°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 22 April 2063 at 02:01 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 May 2063 at 19:05 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 370 176 km

The Moon is 370 176 km (230 017 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 614 km (229 667 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 24 April 2063 at 02:28 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 7 May 2063 at 10:50 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 05:04 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.247°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.173° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 15 May 2063 at 05:16.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 12 May 2063 at 13:11 in ♏ Scorpio 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