Waning
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 18% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 6 July 2083 at 20:33.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♊ Gemini later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2083 after 18 days on 29 July 2083 at 01:00.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 July 2083 at 23:54
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 22 July 2083 at 08:56
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 July 2083 at 01:00
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2083 at 12:38
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 1032 / 1985
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 1032 of Meeus index or 1985 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 17 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 1 hour and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠203.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠203.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 10:51. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 28 June 2083 at 06:42 in ♐ Sagittarius. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 26 July 2083 at 06:24 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 405 424 km
This apogee Moon is 405 424 km (251 919 mi) away from Earth. It is 16 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 285 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 1 July 2083 at 19:10 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 16 July 2083 at 06:07 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 28 June 2083 at 15:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.916°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠26.931° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 July 2083 at 11:43 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 14 July 2083 at 23:54 in ♋ Cancer 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.
