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

Waning Crescent in Virgo

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 12% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 26 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 ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 13 October 2074 at 06:47.

Beaver Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2074 after 17 days on 3 November 2074 at 19:21.

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 ∠1887"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1887" and ∠1926".

Lunation 924 / 1877

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 924 of Meeus index or 1877 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.4 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 43 minutes and it is 1 minute shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2074. 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 3 hours and 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠314.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠314.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠335.8°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 9 October 2074 at 20:38 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 October 2074 at 21:56 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 379 947 km

The Moon is 379 947 km (236 088 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 248 km (223 848 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 14 October 2074 at 00:03 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 26 October 2074 at 15:21 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 12 October 2074 at 12:44 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.404° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.522° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 October 2074 at 10:55 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

3 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 20 October 2074 at 11:11 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