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

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

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 is entering ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 13 June 2075 at 14:39.

Strawberry Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2075 after 13 days on 28 June 2075 at 09:46.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1889".

Lunation 933 / 1886

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 933 of Meeus index or 1886 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes and it is 33 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2075. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠170.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠193.2°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 16:13 about 14 days since last perigee on 30 May 2075 at 22:32 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 13 days until point of next perigee on 28 June 2075 at 08:13 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 406 423 km

This apogee Moon is 406 423 km (252 540 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest apogee of 2075. It is 1 015 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 286 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 1 June 2075 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 June 2075 at 11:01 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

13 days since the last southern standstill on 1 June 2075 at 07:35 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.636° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠22.672° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 June 2075 at 06:29 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 28 June 2075 at 09:46 in ♑ Capricorn 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.

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