Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 10% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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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 15 July 2009 at 09:53.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1958"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1888".
Sturgeon Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2009 after 17 days on 6 August 2009 at 00:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Cancer ♋ on 22 July 2009 at 02:35
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 28 July 2009 at 22:00
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 6 August 2009 at 00:55
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 13 August 2009 at 18:55
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 117 / 1070
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 117 of Meeus index or 1070 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.29 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2009. It is 27 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 5 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.5°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 7 July 2009 at 21:39 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 July 2009 at 20:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 366 019 km
The Moon is 366 019 km (227 434 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 465 km (222 118 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 8 July 2009 at 15:24 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 22 July 2009 at 03:47 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 13:01 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠26.477°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-26.478° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 1 August 2009 at 13:28.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 22 July 2009 at 02:35 in ♋ Cancer 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.
