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

Waxing Crescent in Cancer

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day 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 ♋ Cancer

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 27 June 2090 at 17:11.

Buck Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2090 after 13 days on 11 July 2090 at 17:02.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1925"

Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1925" and ∠1887".

Lunation 1119 / 2072

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1119 of Meeus index or 2072 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 8 minutes and it is 28 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 33 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠310°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠310° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.5°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 19 June 2090 at 00:40 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 June 2090 at 23:26 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 372 341 km

The Moon is 372 341 km (231 362 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 238 km (227 570 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 19 June 2090 at 18:49 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 3 July 2090 at 01:54 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

1 day since the last northern standstill on 27 June 2090 at 08:45 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.446° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.430° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 July 2090 at 07:05 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

22 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 11 July 2090 at 17:02 in ♑ Capricorn 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