Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 20% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 20% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 16 April 2064 at 19:02.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1861"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1909".
Flower Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2064 after 9 days on 1 May 2064 at 02:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2064 at 11:17
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 May 2064 at 02:08
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 May 2064 at 06:16
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2064 at 09:55
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.
Lunation 795 / 1748
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 795 of Meeus index or 1748 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 53 minutes. It is 2 hours and 27 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠206.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠206.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.2°.
Moon after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 14 April 2064 at 02:09 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 29 April 2064 at 13:49 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 385 075 km
The Moon is 385 075 km (239 275 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 386 km (223 933 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 11 April 2064 at 08:46 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 April 2064 at 16:11 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 08:45 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.520°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.444° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 4 May 2064 at 00:57.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 1 May 2064 at 02:08 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.
