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

Waning Crescent in Libra

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 1% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 28 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 ♎ Libra

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 6 October 2061 at 02:57.

Hunter Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2061 after 16 days on 28 October 2061 at 20:12.

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 ∠1831"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1831" and ∠1923".

Lunation 763 / 1716

The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 763 of Meeus index or 1716 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 4 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 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 1 hour and 20 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 43 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠84.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠84.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠120.1°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 2 October 2061 at 13:00 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 October 2061 at 11:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 391 382 km

The Moon is 391 382 km (243 193 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 366 km (251 883 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 16:05 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 27 October 2061 at 02:38 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 5 October 2061 at 08:08 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.627° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.607° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 October 2061 at 09:07 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 13 October 2061 at 10:41 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