Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 15% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 15% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Thursday Thu
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 16 June 2074 at 09:57.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1888".
Buck Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2074 after 18 days on 8 July 2074 at 17:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 24 June 2074 at 13:38
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 2 July 2074 at 02:22
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 8 July 2074 at 17:05
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 16 July 2074 at 01:11
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 920 / 1873
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 920 of Meeus index or 1873 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 54 minutes. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes longer 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 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠193.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠193.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠218.8°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 21:28. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 8 June 2074 at 10:20 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next perigee on 6 July 2074 at 14:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 405 879 km
This apogee Moon is 405 879 km (252 202 mi) away from Earth. It is 471 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 830 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 12 June 2074 at 10:42 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 June 2074 at 23:07 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 10 June 2074 at 21:20 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.986°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.016° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 June 2074 at 05:18 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 24 June 2074 at 13:38 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.
