Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Virgo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 29% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 30 October 2029 at 11:32.

Beaver Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2029 after 19 days on 21 November 2029 at 04:03.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1919"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1919" and ∠1934".

Lunation 368 / 1321

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 368 of Meeus index or 1321 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.38 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 10 minutes and it is 1 hour and 18 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 34 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 35 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠348.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠348.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.8°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 23 October 2029 at 02:02 in ♉ Taurus 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 5 November 2029 at 23:09 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 373 511 km

The Moon is 373 511 km (232 089 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 900 km (221 767 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 27 October 2029 at 05:23 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 8 November 2029 at 23:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 26 October 2029 at 12:40 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.659° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.613° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 November 2029 at 11:00 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 6 November 2029 at 04:24 in ♏ Scorpio 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov