Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 35% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 35% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 4 September 2007 at 02:33.
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 is entering ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1929"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1903".
Harvest Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2007 after 21 days on 26 September 2007 at 19:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 11 September 2007 at 12:44
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 19 September 2007 at 16:48
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 26 September 2007 at 19:45
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 3 October 2007 at 10:06
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 94 / 1047
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 94 of Meeus index or 1047 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes. It is 2 hours and 34 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠97.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠97.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠131.4°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 31 August 2007 at 00:12 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 15 September 2007 at 21:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 371 556 km
The Moon is 371 556 km (230 874 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 645 km (252 056 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 28 August 2007 at 14:27 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 10 September 2007 at 14:49 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 04:28 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠28.380°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-28.347° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 19 September 2007 at 16:22.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 11 September 2007 at 12:44 in ♍ Virgo 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.
