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

Waning Crescent in Leo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ♌ Leo

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.

6 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 30 August 2059 at 01:05.

Harvest Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2059 after 16 days on 21 September 2059 at 17:18.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1776"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1776" and ∠1903".

Lunation 737 / 1690

The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 737 of Meeus index or 1690 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠149.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠173.7°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 24 August 2059 at 02:14 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 September 2059 at 16:10 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 403 501 km

The Moon is 403 501 km (250 724 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 622 km (252 663 mi).

Moon before descending node

7 days after ascending node on 28 August 2059 at 20:26 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 12 September 2059 at 09:18 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 1 September 2059 at 10:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.870° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.003° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 September 2059 at 04:41 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

7 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 6 September 2059 at 23:01 in ♍ Virgo 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