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

Waxing Crescent in Gemini

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 in ♊ Gemini

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 16 May 2083 at 18:14.

Flower Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2083 after 11 days on 31 May 2083 at 09:42.

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 ∠1783"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1896".

Lunation 1031 / 1984

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1031 of Meeus index or 1984 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 24 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 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠180.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠180.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠203.8°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 16 May 2083 at 17:26 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 May 2083 at 23:07 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 402 049 km

The Moon is 402 049 km (249 822 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 245 km (221 982 mi).

Moon before descending node

11 days after ascending node on 8 May 2083 at 08:03 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 22 May 2083 at 23:17 in ♌ Leo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 00:24 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.923°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.909° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 1 June 2083 at 05:43.

Draconic month

11 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 31 May 2083 at 09:42 in ♐ Sagittarius 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