Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 36% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 36% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 26 October 2013 at 23:41.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠22° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1788"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2013 after 20 days on 17 November 2013 at 15:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 3 November 2013 at 12:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 10 November 2013 at 05:57
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 17 November 2013 at 15:16
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 25 November 2013 at 19:28
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 170 / 1123
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 170 of Meeus index or 1123 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 15 minutes. It is 43 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠285.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠285.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠315°.
Moon after apogee
2 days after point of apogee on 25 October 2013 at 14:25 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 November 2013 at 09:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 400 925 km
The Moon is 400 925 km (249 123 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 362 km (227 025 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 19 October 2013 at 21:47 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 3 November 2013 at 06:52 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 23 October 2013 at 09:13 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.509°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.511° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 November 2013 at 06:43 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 3 November 2013 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
