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

Waning Crescent in Cancer

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

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 in ♋ Cancer

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 23 August 2065 at 23:56.

Harvest Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2065 after 17 days on 14 September 2065 at 16:05.

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 ∠1822"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1822" and ∠1900".

Lunation 811 / 1764

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 811 of Meeus index or 1764 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.45 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 53 minutes and it is 1 hour and 8 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 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠270.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠270.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠303.1°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 23 August 2065 at 10:35 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 September 2065 at 13:22 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 393 357 km

The Moon is 393 357 km (244 421 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 552 km (228 386 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 12:53 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 10 September 2065 at 09:27 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 25 August 2065 at 15:06 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.110° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.026° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 September 2065 at 20:07 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 31 August 2065 at 16:39 in ♍ Virgo 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.

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