Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 34% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 20 August 2068 at 00:16.
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 ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1885"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1897".
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2068 after 21 days on 11 September 2068 at 17:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 27 August 2068 at 18:28
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 September 2068 at 22:04
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 11 September 2068 at 17:19
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 18 September 2068 at 10:16
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 848 / 1801
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 848 of Meeus index or 1801 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 34 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠133.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠133.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠160.5°.
Moon after perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 14 August 2068 at 15:33 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 August 2068 at 20:38 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 380 275 km
The Moon is 380 275 km (236 292 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 437 km (252 548 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 20 August 2068 at 00:01 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 September 2068 at 12:48 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 14:51 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠21.140°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.990° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 5 September 2068 at 09:10.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 27 August 2068 at 18:28 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.
