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

Waning Crescent in Scorpio

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 41% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 27 January 2068 at 14:27.

Snow Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2068 after 20 days on 18 February 2068 at 04:38.

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 ∠1845"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1845" and ∠1948".

Lunation 841 / 1794

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 841 of Meeus index or 1794 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 31 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠331.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠331.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠348.6°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 22 January 2068 at 15:47 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 February 2068 at 05:46 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 388 570 km

The Moon is 388 570 km (241 446 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 542 km (222 166 mi).

Moon before ascending node

13 days after descending node on 15 January 2068 at 11:57 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 January 2068 at 02:06 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 16 January 2068 at 02:15 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.237° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.138° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 January 2068 at 17:55 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 3 February 2068 at 13:44 in ♒ Aquarius 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