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

Waning Crescent in Leo

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 32% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 23 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♌ Leo

Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 13 October 2055 at 18:22.

Beaver Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2055 after 20 days on 4 November 2055 at 12:12.

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 ∠1924"

Lunar disc appears visually 0% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1924" and ∠1925".

Lunation 689 / 1642

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 689 of Meeus index or 1642 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.35 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 30 minutes and it is 1 hour and 15 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 4 hours and 14 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠352.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠352.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.9°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 5 October 2055 at 17:59 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 October 2055 at 23:43 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 372 543 km

The Moon is 372 543 km (231 487 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 259 km (221 990 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 00:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 11 days until Moon's next descending node later on 27 October 2055 at 11:35 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 13 October 2055 at 00:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.758° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.867° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2055 at 12:52 in ♑ Capricorn.

New draconic month

At 00:14 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 20 October 2055 at 10:49 in ♎ Libra 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