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 33% 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 ♌ Leo

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 5 October 2091 at 19:53.

Hunter Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2091 after 19 days on 27 October 2091 at 09:18.

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 ∠1866"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1866" and ∠1920".

Lunation 1134 / 2087

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1134 of Meeus index or 2087 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 54 minutes and it is 19 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2091. 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 3 hours and 50 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 19 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠332.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠332.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.5°.

Moon before perigee

6 days since point of apogee on 30 September 2091 at 16:41 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 October 2091 at 09:20 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 384 061 km

The Moon is 384 061 km (238 644 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 592 km (222 197 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 25 September 2091 at 00:30 in ♓ Pisces 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 9 October 2091 at 12:42 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 5 October 2091 at 08:31 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.007° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.095° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 October 2091 at 23:45 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

25 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 12 October 2091 at 18:29 in ♎ Libra 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