Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 34% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 25 November 2013 at 19:28.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1828"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1945".
Cold Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2013 after 19 days on 17 December 2013 at 09:28.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 December 2013 at 00:22
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 9 December 2013 at 15:12
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 December 2013 at 09:28
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 25 December 2013 at 13:48
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 171 / 1124
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 171 of Meeus index or 1124 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.48 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 32 minutes. It is 40 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 1 hour and 12 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 57 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠315°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠315°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠336.4°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 22 November 2013 at 09:50 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 December 2013 at 10:15 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 392 009 km
The Moon is 392 009 km (243 583 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 065 km (223 734 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 16 November 2013 at 05:30 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 30 November 2013 at 16:59 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
24 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 before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 19 November 2013 at 17:18 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.534°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.552° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 December 2013 at 16:38 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 3 December 2013 at 00:22 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
