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Quarter* ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 38% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 38% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 25 April 2093 at 16:12.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♋ Cancer
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♌ Leo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2093 after 8 days on 11 May 2093 at 02:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 May 2093 at 18:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 May 2093 at 02:17
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 17 May 2093 at 17:47
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 25 May 2093 at 06:07
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 1154 / 2107
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1154 of Meeus index or 2107 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠109.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠109.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠142°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 1 May 2093 at 06:12 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 May 2093 at 03:53 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 404 462 km
The Moon is 404 462 km (251 321 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 526 km (225 263 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 12:02 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 15 May 2093 at 15:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 12:02 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 1 May 2093 at 00:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.429°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.516° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 May 2093 at 12:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 11 May 2093 at 02:17 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.
