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

Waning Crescent in Libra

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 17% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

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 ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 12 November 2044 at 05:09.

Cold Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2044 after 19 days on 4 December 2044 at 23:34.

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 ∠1894"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1894" and ∠1940".

Lunation 554 / 1507

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 554 of Meeus index or 1507 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes and it is 2 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠90.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠90.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠126.5°.

Moon after perigee

7 days since point of perigee on 8 November 2044 at 06:14 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 November 2044 at 06:42 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 378 393 km

The Moon is 378 393 km (235 123 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 513 km (251 974 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 13 November 2044 at 12:05 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 November 2044 at 20:02 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 8 November 2044 at 11:13 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.171° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.089° at the point of next southern standstill on 21 November 2044 at 22:50 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 19 November 2044 at 14:58 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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