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

Waning Crescent in Leo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 30% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ♌ Leo

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 26 October 2089 at 16:06.

Beaver Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2089 after 20 days on 18 November 2089 at 03:02.

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 ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1932".

Lunation 1110 / 2063

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1110 of Meeus index or 2063 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.49 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 40 minutes and it is 2 hours and 37 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 1 hour and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠38.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠38.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.1°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 23:05 about 15 days since last apogee on 13 October 2089 at 11:47 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the upcoming 12 days until point of next apogee on 10 November 2089 at 07:48 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 368 917 km

This perigee Moon is 368 917 km (229 234 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 409 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 439 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 18 October 2089 at 03:46 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 31 October 2089 at 06:06 in ♎ Libra.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 24 October 2089 at 02:33 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.262° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.316° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 November 2089 at 03:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 2 November 2089 at 12:55 in ♏ Scorpio 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