Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 30% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 30% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 7 July 2007 at 16:54.
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 ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1971"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2007 after 20 days on 30 July 2007 at 00:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 July 2007 at 12:04
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 22 July 2007 at 06:29
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 July 2007 at 00:48
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 August 2007 at 21:20
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 92 / 1045
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 92 of Meeus index or 1045 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
Length of current 92 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 51 minutes. It is 2 hours and 8 minutes shorter than next lunation 93 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 53 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 16 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠38.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠38.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠64.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 21:38, this is 15 days after last apogee on 24 June 2007 at 14:25 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 22 July 2007 at 08:43 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 368 534 km
This perigee Moon is 368 534 km (228 996 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 026 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 822 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
4 days after its ascending node on 5 July 2007 at 01:39 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 18 July 2007 at 00:18 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
4 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 29 June 2007 at 15:41 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.215°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.251° in the next northern standstill on 12 July 2007 at 16:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 14 July 2007 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.