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

Waning Crescent in Taurus

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 42% 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 is entering ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 11 July 2088 at 17:52.

Sturgeon Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2088 after 21 days on 2 August 2088 at 13:39.

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 ∠1930"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1888".

Lunation 1094 / 2047

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1094 of Meeus index or 2047 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.28 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 6 hours and 45 minutes and it is 52 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2088. 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 5 hours and 59 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 10 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠3.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠3.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠18.9°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 2 July 2088 at 03:52 in ♐ Sagittarius 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 17 July 2088 at 05:29 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 371 395 km

The Moon is 371 395 km (230 774 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 287 km (223 251 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 16:44 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 25 July 2088 at 07:29 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 2 July 2088 at 04:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.425° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.354° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 July 2088 at 02:03 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 18 July 2088 at 08:38 in ♋ Cancer 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