Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 32% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 32% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 10 June 2080 at 17:20.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1847"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1889".
Buck Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2080 after 19 days on 2 July 2080 at 04:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 June 2080 at 18:40
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 24 June 2080 at 09:12
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 July 2080 at 04:09
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 July 2080 at 06:45
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 994 / 1947
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 994 of Meeus index or 1947 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. It is 1 hour and 4 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠323.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠323.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠341.5°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 6 June 2080 at 12:37 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 June 2080 at 21:12 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 388 179 km
The Moon is 388 179 km (241 203 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 167 km (223 176 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 05:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 24 June 2080 at 18:02 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 05:55 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 4 June 2080 at 03:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.386°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.379° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 June 2080 at 01:30 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 17 June 2080 at 18:40 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.
