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

Waning Crescent in Virgo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 8 October 2096 at 17:09.

Hunter Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2096 after 17 days on 31 October 2096 at 11:16.

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 ∠1837"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1837" and ∠1924".

Lunation 1196 / 2149

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1196 of Meeus index or 2149 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.64 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 49 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠110.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠110.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠143.3°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 4 October 2096 at 00:44 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 October 2096 at 20:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 390 236 km

The Moon is 390 236 km (242 481 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 935 km (252 236 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 4 October 2096 at 22:17 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 October 2096 at 14:16 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 8 October 2096 at 03:20 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.877° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.956° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2096 at 13:04 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 16 October 2096 at 06:28 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