Waning
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 35% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 35% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♋ Cancer.
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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 22 September 2019 at 02:41.
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 ♋ Cancer
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♋ Cancer tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1926"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1912".
Hunter Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2019 after 20 days on 13 October 2019 at 21:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 September 2019 at 18:26
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 October 2019 at 16:47
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 13 October 2019 at 21:08
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 21 October 2019 at 12:39
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 243 / 1196
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 243 of Meeus index or 1196 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠356.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠356.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠11.4°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 13 September 2019 at 13:32 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 September 2019 at 02:27 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 372 251 km
The Moon is 372 251 km (231 306 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 803 km (222 328 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♋ Cancer at 06:30 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 5 October 2019 at 18:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
New draconic month
At 06:30 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at northern standstill
At 01:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠22.681°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-22.788° at the point of next standstill in ♑ Capricorn on 5 October 2019 at 16:01.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 28 September 2019 at 18:26 in ♍ Virgo 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.
