Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 39% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 39% 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 21 November 2016 at 08:33.
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 ∠14° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1829"
Lunar disc appears visually 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1829" and ∠1943".
Cold Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2016 after 21 days on 14 December 2016 at 00:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 November 2016 at 12:18
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 7 December 2016 at 09:03
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 14 December 2016 at 00:06
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 21 December 2016 at 01:56
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 208 / 1161
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 208 of Meeus index or 1161 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2016. It is 5 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 5 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠170.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠170.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.9°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 14 November 2016 at 11:23 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 27 November 2016 at 20:08 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 391 852 km
The Moon is 391 852 km (243 486 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 556 km (252 622 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 02:48 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 6 December 2016 at 17:35 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 02:48 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 17 November 2016 at 09:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.814°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.908° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 December 2016 at 19:56 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 29 November 2016 at 12:18 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.
