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 10% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 22 November 2054 at 10:22.

Cold Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2054 after 18 days on 14 December 2054 at 22:41.

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 ∠1935"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1935" and ∠1945".

Lunation 678 / 1631

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 678 of Meeus index or 1631 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.52 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 32 minutes and it is 2 hours and 46 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠44°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠44° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠72.4°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 23 November 2054 at 15:48 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 December 2054 at 16:51 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 370 481 km

The Moon is 370 481 km (230 206 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 292 km (251 215 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 21 November 2054 at 22:10 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 December 2054 at 06:07 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 18 November 2054 at 17:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.632° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.707° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 December 2054 at 17:59 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 29 November 2054 at 08:33 in ♐ Sagittarius 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