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 33% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 passing about ∠22° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 22 September 2065 at 18:09.

Hunter Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2065 after 19 days on 14 October 2065 at 07:04.

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 ∠1810"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1913".

Lunation 812 / 1765

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 812 of Meeus index or 1765 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 45 minutes and it is 21 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 2 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠303.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠303.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠327.1°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 20 September 2065 at 05:27 in ♊ Gemini 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 2 October 2065 at 02:38 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 395 950 km

The Moon is 395 950 km (246 032 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 386 km (225 176 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♋ Cancer at 18:20 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 7 October 2065 at 10:31 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 21 September 2065 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.907° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.796° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 October 2065 at 01:57 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 5 days

In 5 days on 30 September 2065 at 02:24 in ♎ Libra 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