Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Leo

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 9% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 26 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♌ Leo

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 22 September 2008 at 05:04.

Hunter Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2008 after 18 days on 14 October 2008 at 20:03.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1904"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1904" and ∠1914".

Lunation 107 / 1060

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 107 of Meeus index or 1060 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 14 minutes and it is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 30 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠64.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠64.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠98.7°.

Moon after perigee

6 days since point of perigee on 20 September 2008 at 03:17 in ♊ Gemini the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 October 2008 at 10:34 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 376 469 km

The Moon is 376 469 km (233 927 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 716 km (251 479 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 25 September 2008 at 16:20 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 October 2008 at 00:38 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 21 September 2008 at 18:30 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.476° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.370° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 October 2008 at 14:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 29 September 2008 at 08:12 in ♎ Libra 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov