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

Waning Crescent in Sagittarius

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 15% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 25 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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 2 January 2062 at 13:21.

Wolf Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2062 after 18 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37.

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 ∠1778"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1951".

Lunation 766 / 1719

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 766 of Meeus index or 1719 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2062. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠176.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠176.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.9°.

Moon before perigee

25 days since point of apogee on 12 December 2061 at 07:27 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 403 185 km

The Moon is 403 185 km (250 528 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 473 km (252 571 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 2 January 2062 at 00:30 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 January 2062 at 15:36 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 26 December 2061 at 10:29 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.396° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.405° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 January 2062 at 02:13 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 10 January 2062 at 17:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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