Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 11% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 2 May 2087 at 17:51.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2087 after 12 days on 17 May 2087 at 15:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 9 May 2087 at 13:09
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2087 at 15:55
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 25 May 2087 at 10:41
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 June 2087 at 01:38
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 1080 / 2033
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1080 of Meeus index or 2033 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2087. It is 4 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 56 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠3.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠3.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠19°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 2 May 2087 at 13:16 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 May 2087 at 19:24 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 369 044 km
The Moon is 369 044 km (229 313 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 162 km (252 377 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 3 May 2087 at 13:34 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 May 2087 at 11:58 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 03:19 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠20.806°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-20.798° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 19 May 2087 at 11:07.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 17 May 2087 at 15:55 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
