Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 9% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and getting smaller. The 26 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 5 December 2004 at 00:53.
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 ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1920"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1920" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2004 after 17 days on 26 December 2004 at 15:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 December 2004 at 01:29
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 18 December 2004 at 16:40
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 December 2004 at 15:06
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 January 2005 at 17:46
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 60 / 1013
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 60 of Meeus index or 1013 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 2 minutes. It is 28 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 1 hour and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠327.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠327.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠345.8°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 30 November 2004 at 11:25 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 December 2004 at 21:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 373 251 km
The Moon is 373 251 km (231 927 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 986 km (222 442 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 8 December 2004 at 16:57 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 December 2004 at 06:51 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 29 November 2004 at 08:28 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.963°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.935° at the point of next southern standstill on 13 December 2004 at 00:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 12 December 2004 at 01:29 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.
