Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 5% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 27 November 2002 at 15:46.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1946".
Cold Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2002 after 17 days on 19 December 2002 at 19:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 December 2002 at 07:34
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 11 December 2002 at 15:49
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 19 December 2002 at 19:10
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 27 December 2002 at 00:31
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 35 / 988
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 35 of Meeus index or 988 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 48 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 1 hour and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠14°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠14°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠32.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 08:53. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 16 November 2002 at 11:30 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 14 December 2002 at 03:57 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 362 294 km
This perigee Moon is 362 294 km (225 119 mi) away from Earth. It is 214 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 062 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 20 November 2002 at 23:26 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 December 2002 at 02:12 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
11 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 before southern standstill
8 days since the previous standstill on 23 November 2002 at 12:14 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.812°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.808° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 December 2002 at 07:00 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 4 December 2002 at 07:34 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
