Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 12% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 26 May 2065 at 23:38.
Moonrise and moonset
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 entering ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2065 after 17 days on 18 June 2065 at 09:28.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 4 June 2065 at 03:05
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 11 June 2065 at 19:25
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 18 June 2065 at 09:28
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 25 June 2065 at 14:08
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 808 / 1761
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 808 of Meeus index or 1761 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 34 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠183°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠183°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠206.9°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 19 May 2065 at 12:57 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 June 2065 at 09:08 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 836 km
The Moon is 404 836 km (251 553 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 272 km (252 446 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 24 May 2065 at 02:55 in ♑ Capricorn. 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 7 June 2065 at 16:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 21 May 2065 at 12:36 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.190°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.155° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 June 2065 at 16:59 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 4 June 2065 at 03:05 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
