Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 12% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% 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 16 December 2022 at 08:56.
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 ∠19° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1908"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1908" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2023 after 17 days on 6 January 2023 at 23:08.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 23 December 2022 at 10:17
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 30 December 2022 at 01:21
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 6 January 2023 at 23:08
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 15 January 2023 at 02:10
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 283 / 1236
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 283 of Meeus index or 1236 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes. It is 44 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠325.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠325.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠344.3°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 12 December 2022 at 00:30 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 December 2022 at 08:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 375 642 km
The Moon is 375 642 km (233 413 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 270 km (222 619 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 01:36 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 1 January 2023 at 15:25 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 9 December 2022 at 21:22 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.432°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.418° at the point of next southern standstill on 23 December 2022 at 18:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 23 December 2022 at 10:17 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.
