Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 8% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 10 October 2001 at 04:20.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1924".
Beaver Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2001 after 17 days on 1 November 2001 at 05:41.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 October 2001 at 19:23
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 October 2001 at 02:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 1 November 2001 at 05:41
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 8 November 2001 at 12:21
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.
Lunation 21 / 974
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 21 of Meeus index or 974 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 56 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 3 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠13.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠13.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠30.5°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 23:02. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 29 September 2001 at 05:33 in ♒ Aquarius. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 26 October 2001 at 20:12 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 361 864 km
This perigee Moon is 361 864 km (224 852 mi) away from Earth. It is 644 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 492 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 8 October 2001 at 22:32 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 21 October 2001 at 13:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 9 October 2001 at 18:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.937°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-24.041° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 October 2001 at 13:05 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 16 October 2001 at 19:23 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.
