Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 39% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 39% 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 26 September 2032 at 09:12.
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 ∠1800"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1800" and ∠1915".
Hunter Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2032 after 21 days on 18 October 2032 at 18:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 4 October 2032 at 13:26
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 12 October 2032 at 03:48
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 October 2032 at 18:58
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 October 2032 at 02:29
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 404 / 1357
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 404 of Meeus index or 1357 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
Length of current 404 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 30 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2032. It is 11 minutes longer than next lunation 405 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠189.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠189.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠215.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 18 September 2032 at 14:05 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 October 2032 at 03:03 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 398 101 km
Moon is 398 101 km (247 368 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 3 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 951 km (252 246 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 21 September 2032 at 16:10 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 October 2032 at 02:03 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days after previous North standstill on 25 September 2032 at 11:10 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠19.115°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.064° in the next southern standstill on 10 October 2032 at 03:40 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 7 days
After 7 days on 4 October 2032 at 13:26 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.