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 34% 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 in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 19 July 2090 at 20:16.

Sturgeon Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2090 after 19 days on 10 August 2090 at 06:51.

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 ∠1820"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1889".

Lunation 1119 / 2072

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1119 of Meeus index or 2072 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.34 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 8 minutes and it is 28 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 36 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 33 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠310°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠310° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.5°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 16 July 2090 at 18:12 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 July 2090 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 393 866 km

The Moon is 393 866 km (244 737 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 406 km (224 567 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 16 July 2090 at 21:11 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 30 July 2090 at 05:38 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

11 days since the last southern standstill on 10 July 2090 at 07:05 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.430° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.374° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 July 2090 at 19:29 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 27 July 2090 at 01:19 in ♌ Leo 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