Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 5% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 25 June 2065 at 14:08.
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 in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2065 after 16 days on 17 July 2065 at 17:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 July 2065 at 17:16
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 11 July 2065 at 01:16
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 17 July 2065 at 17:45
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 25 July 2065 at 06:22
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 809 / 1762
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 809 of Meeus index or 1762 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 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 1 hour and 27 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 36 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠206.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠206.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠235.9°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 28 June 2065 at 22:35 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 July 2065 at 17:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 402 983 km
The Moon is 402 983 km (250 402 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 373 km (227 032 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 20 June 2065 at 10:37 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 July 2065 at 21:42 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
11 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 at northern standstill
At 23:11 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.180°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.199° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 15 July 2065 at 07:31.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 3 July 2065 at 17:16 in ♋ Cancer 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.
