Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 26% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 15 October 2014 at 19:12.
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 ∠24° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1926".
Beaver Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2014 after 19 days on 6 November 2014 at 22:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 October 2014 at 21:57
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 31 October 2014 at 02:48
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 November 2014 at 22:23
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 14 November 2014 at 15:16
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 182 / 1135
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 182 of Meeus index or 1135 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.65 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 43 minutes. It is 1 hour and 7 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 59 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 4 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠218.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠218.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠252.3°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 06:05. It is 11 days after previous perigee on 6 October 2014 at 09:41 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 3 November 2014 at 00:21 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 898 km
This apogee Moon is 404 898 km (251 592 mi) away from Earth. It is 510 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 811 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 8 October 2014 at 17:44 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 23 October 2014 at 00:46 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
22 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 after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 13 October 2014 at 13:34 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.517°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.539° at the point of next southern standstill on 28 October 2014 at 01:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 23 October 2014 at 21:57 in ♎ Libra 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.
