Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 4% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1945".
Cold Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2016 after 16 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
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 208 / 1161
The Moon is 27 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 at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 20:08. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 14 November 2016 at 11:23 in ♉ Taurus. 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 12 December 2016 at 23:27 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 406 556 km
This apogee Moon is 406 556 km (252 622 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 148 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 153 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 22 November 2016 at 02:48 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 December 2016 at 17:35 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 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 4 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 2 days
In 2 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.
