Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 9% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 19 December 2019 at 04:57.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1919"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2020 after 18 days on 10 January 2020 at 19:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 26 December 2019 at 05:13
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 3 January 2020 at 04:45
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 10 January 2020 at 19:21
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2020 at 12:58
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 246 / 1199
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 246 of Meeus index or 1199 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 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 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠50.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠50.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠82.6°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 18 December 2019 at 20:30 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 January 2020 at 01:30 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 373 476 km
The Moon is 373 476 km (232 067 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 580 km (251 394 mi).
Moon before descending node
9 days after ascending node on 13 December 2019 at 14:15 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 26 December 2019 at 13:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
9 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 13 December 2019 at 20:57 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.226°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.227° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 December 2019 at 20:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 26 December 2019 at 05:13 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
