Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 31% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 31% and getting smaller. The 24 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 17 August 2014 at 12:26.
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 ∠19° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1816"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1816" and ∠1896".
Harvest Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2014 after 20 days on 9 September 2014 at 01:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 August 2014 at 14:13
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 September 2014 at 11:11
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 September 2014 at 01:38
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 16 September 2014 at 02:05
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 180 / 1133
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 180 of Meeus index or 1133 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes. It is 30 minutes shorter 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 47 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 16 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠169.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠169.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠192.1°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 10 August 2014 at 17:43 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 August 2014 at 06:09 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 394 590 km
The Moon is 394 590 km (245 187 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 523 km (252 602 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 15 August 2014 at 00:18 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 29 August 2014 at 13:14 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 22:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.750°. Over the next 15 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.641° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 3 September 2014 at 13:10.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 25 August 2014 at 14:13 in ♌ Leo 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.
