Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 18% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 2 August 2067 at 01:51.
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 ∠23° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1804"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1804" and ∠1892".
Sturgeon Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2067 after 19 days on 24 August 2067 at 16:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 10 August 2067 at 02:36
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 18 August 2067 at 01:09
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 24 August 2067 at 16:57
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 31 August 2067 at 14:04
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.
Lunation 835 / 1788
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 835 of Meeus index or 1788 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes. It is 12 minutes shorter 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 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠159.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠159.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠183°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 26 July 2067 at 17:23 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 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 August 2067 at 18:29 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 397 260 km
The Moon is 397 260 km (246 846 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 600 km (252 650 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 05:26 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 19 August 2067 at 17:42 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
12 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 at northern standstill
At 03:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.998°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.875° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 19 August 2067 at 18:29.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 10 August 2067 at 02:36 in ♌ Leo 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.
