Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 41% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 41% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 8 September 2012 at 13:15.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1906".
Harvest Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2012 after 20 days on 30 September 2012 at 03:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 September 2012 at 02:11
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 September 2012 at 19:41
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 30 September 2012 at 03:19
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 8 October 2012 at 07:33
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 156 / 1109
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 156 of Meeus index or 1109 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 156 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 24 minutes longer than next lunation 157 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠283.7°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠283.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠312.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 7 September 2012 at 06:00 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 9 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 19 September 2012 at 02:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 402 703 km
Moon is 402 703 km (250 228 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 9 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 749 km (227 266 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after its descending node on 7 September 2012 at 02:08 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 20 September 2012 at 12:54 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
1 day after previous North standstill on 8 September 2012 at 18:10 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.244°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.135° in the next southern standstill on 22 September 2012 at 00:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
After 6 days on 16 September 2012 at 02:11 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.