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 35% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 23 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 ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 24 January 2079 at 21:46.

Snow Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2079 after 20 days on 15 February 2079 at 23:45.

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 ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1949".

Lunation 977 / 1930

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 977 of Meeus index or 1930 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.7 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 45 minutes and it is 2 hours and 32 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 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 2 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠225.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠225.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠261.8°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 21:03 about 11 days since last perigee on 15 January 2079 at 03:12 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 11 February 2079 at 08:13 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 404 718 km

This apogee Moon is 404 718 km (251 480 mi) away from Earth. It is 690 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 991 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 24 January 2079 at 23:31 in ♎ Libra 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 7 February 2079 at 23:17 in ♈ Aries.

Moon before southern standstill

10 days since the last northern standstill on 16 January 2079 at 00:05 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.561° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.617° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 January 2079 at 00:20 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 6 days

In 6 days on 1 February 2079 at 23:35 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