Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 22% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and growing larger. The 5 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 13 April 2067 at 19:23.
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 passing about ∠25° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1789"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1910".
Pink Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2067 after 10 days on 29 April 2067 at 08:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 April 2067 at 14:15
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 29 April 2067 at 08:40
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 May 2067 at 05:19
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 13 May 2067 at 07:20
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 832 / 1785
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 832 of Meeus index or 1785 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠63.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠63.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠98.3°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 9 April 2067 at 05:49 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 April 2067 at 15:37 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 400 657 km
The Moon is 400 657 km (248 957 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 190 km (251 152 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 06:40 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 2 May 2067 at 08:57 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 17 April 2067 at 23:59 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.205°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.143° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 May 2067 at 04:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 29 April 2067 at 08:40 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.
