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

Waning Crescent in Scorpio

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 4% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 27 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 7 December 2077 at 07:25.

Cold Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2077 after 15 days on 29 December 2077 at 10:45.

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 ∠1798"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1949".

Lunation 963 / 1916

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 963 of Meeus index or 1916 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.71 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 6 minutes and it is 1 hour and 58 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 22 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 41 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠222.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠222.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠258.6°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 9 December 2077 at 10:56 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 December 2077 at 02:40 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 398 717 km

The Moon is 398 717 km (247 751 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 754 km (229 133 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 09:35 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 26 December 2077 at 14:03 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 2 December 2077 at 01:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.488° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.467° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 December 2077 at 13:36 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 15 December 2077 at 10:06 in ♐ Sagittarius 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