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

Waning Crescent in Taurus

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 12 June 2069 at 09:56.

Buck Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2069 after 18 days on 4 July 2069 at 13:05.

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 ∠1966"

Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1889".

Lunation 858 / 1811

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 858 of Meeus index or 1811 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 8 minutes and it is 51 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 33 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠21°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠21° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠40.5°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 13:22 about 15 days since last apogee on 31 May 2069 at 17:30 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 11 days until point of next apogee on 28 June 2069 at 10:15 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 364 199 km

This perigee Moon is 364 199 km (226 303 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 691 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 157 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 15 June 2069 at 23:37 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 29 June 2069 at 14:55 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 5 June 2069 at 10:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.943° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.940° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2069 at 12:47 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 19 June 2069 at 02:14 in ♊ Gemini 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