Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 24% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 22 October 2016 at 19:14.
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 ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1839"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1839" and ∠1930".
Beaver Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2016 after 20 days on 14 November 2016 at 13:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 October 2016 at 17:38
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 November 2016 at 19:51
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 November 2016 at 13:52
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 21 November 2016 at 08:33
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 207 / 1160
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 207 of Meeus index or 1160 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 27 minutes. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠144.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠144.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠170.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 16 October 2016 at 23:36 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 31 October 2016 at 19:29 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 389 781 km
The Moon is 389 781 km (242 199 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 660 km (252 687 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 13 October 2016 at 09:43 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 26 October 2016 at 01:44 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, 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 20 October 2016 at 23:38 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.619°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.737° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 November 2016 at 13:04 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 30 October 2016 at 17:38 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.
