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

Waning Crescent in Cancer

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 10% 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 3 August 2075 at 16:43.

Sturgeon Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2075 after 17 days on 26 August 2075 at 00:51.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1893".

Lunation 934 / 1887

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 934 of Meeus index or 1887 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.62 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 59 minutes and it is 1 hour and 7 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 48 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠193.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠193.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠218.9°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 04:19 about 12 days since last perigee on 26 July 2075 at 17:26 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 23 August 2075 at 22:14 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 405 671 km

This apogee Moon is 405 671 km (252 072 mi) away from Earth. It is 263 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 038 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 23:02 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 August 2075 at 16:33 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon at northern standstill

At 18:41 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.688°. Over the upcoming 14 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.754° at the point of next southern standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 22 August 2075 at 13:47.

New draconic month

At 23:02 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 11 August 2075 at 21:10 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.

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