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 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 passing about ∠15° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 25 October 2062 at 06:28.

Beaver Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2062 after 17 days on 16 November 2062 at 20:48.

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 ∠1896"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1896" and ∠1933".

Lunation 776 / 1729

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 776 of Meeus index or 1729 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 43 minutes and it is 2 hours and 45 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 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠54.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠54.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠86.4°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 24 October 2062 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 November 2062 at 23:42 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 378 136 km

The Moon is 378 136 km (234 963 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 510 km (251 351 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 28 October 2062 at 19:18 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 12 November 2062 at 01:21 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 22 October 2062 at 22:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.544° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.465° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 November 2062 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 1 November 2062 at 07:32 in ♏ Scorpio 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