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 ♎ Libra.
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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 29 October 2002 at 05:28.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1934".
Beaver Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2002 after 17 days on 20 November 2002 at 01:34.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 4 November 2002 at 20:34
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 11 November 2002 at 20:52
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 20 November 2002 at 01:34
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 27 November 2002 at 15:46
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 34 / 987
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 34 of Meeus index or 987 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.39 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 17 minutes. It is 1 hour and 43 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 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠358.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 20 October 2002 at 04:41 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 November 2002 at 00:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 363 667 km
The Moon is 363 667 km (225 972 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 154 km (222 547 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 24 October 2002 at 18:18 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 November 2002 at 15:22 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
8 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
6 days since the previous standstill on 27 October 2002 at 06:34 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.735°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.781° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 November 2002 at 20:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 4 November 2002 at 20:34 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.
