Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 11% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% 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 11 December 2025 at 20:52.
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 ∠16° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1950".
Wolf Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2026 after 17 days on 3 January 2026 at 10:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 December 2025 at 01:43
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 27 December 2025 at 19:10
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 3 January 2026 at 10:03
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 10 January 2026 at 15:48
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 320 / 1273
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 320 of Meeus index or 1273 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 56 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2025. It is 47 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 6 hours and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠181.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠181.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠207°.
Moon before perigee
12 days after point of perigee on 4 December 2025 at 11:06 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 December 2025 at 06:09 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 404 907 km
The Moon is 404 907 km (251 598 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 324 km (252 478 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 11 December 2025 at 07:35 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 25 December 2025 at 22:03 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
17 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, 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 5 December 2025 at 21:51 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.263°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.233° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 December 2025 at 23:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 20 December 2025 at 01:43 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.
