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 13% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 26 October 2032 at 02:29.

Beaver Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2032 after 17 days on 17 November 2032 at 06:42.

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 ∠1772"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1933".

Lunation 405 / 1358

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 405 of Meeus index or 1358 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.68 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 19 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 3 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 28 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠215.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠215.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠248.6°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 28 October 2032 at 18:22 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 November 2032 at 15:20 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 404 480 km

The Moon is 404 480 km (251 332 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 372 km (228 274 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 19 October 2032 at 02:27 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 November 2032 at 09:04 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 22 October 2032 at 20:01 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.051° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.070° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 November 2032 at 09:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

24 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 3 November 2032 at 05:45 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