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 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 ∠5° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 30 May 2098 at 18:23.

Strawberry Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2098 after 12 days on 13 June 2098 at 20:25.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1956"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1956" and ∠1892".

Lunation 1217 / 2170

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1217 of Meeus index or 2170 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.32 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes and it is 58 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 5 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠320.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠320.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.4°.

Moon before perigee

11 days since point of apogee on 21 May 2098 at 09:03 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 June 2098 at 05:57 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 366 370 km

The Moon is 366 370 km (227 652 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 988 km (226 172 mi).

Moon after ascending node

5 days after ascending node on 27 May 2098 at 09:11 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 June 2098 at 01:58 in ♎ Libra.

Moon at northern standstill

At 09:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.197°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.153° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 14 June 2098 at 16:36.

Draconic month

5 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 13 June 2098 at 20:25 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.

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