Waxing
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 16% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 16% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 25 May 2093 at 06:07.
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 passing about ∠25° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1893".
Strawberry Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2093 after 10 days on 9 June 2093 at 10:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 2 June 2093 at 10:39
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 9 June 2093 at 10:09
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 16 June 2093 at 01:19
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 23 June 2093 at 21:04
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 1155 / 2108
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1155 of Meeus index or 2108 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 57 minutes. It is 34 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 2 hours and 13 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 50 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠142°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠142°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠167.5°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 28 May 2093 at 21:26 in ♋ Cancer. 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 10 June 2093 at 08:55 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 405 114 km
The Moon is 405 114 km (251 726 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 605 km (222 827 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 14:36 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 11 June 2093 at 20:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 14:36 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 28 May 2093 at 08:03 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.600°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.625° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 June 2093 at 21:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 9 June 2093 at 10:09 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.
