Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 35% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 35% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 24 December 2032 at 20:39.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1789"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1789" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2033 after 20 days on 15 January 2033 at 13:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 1 January 2033 at 10:17
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 8 January 2033 at 03:34
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 15 January 2033 at 13:07
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 23 January 2033 at 17:46
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 407 / 1360
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 407 of Meeus index or 1360 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 24 minutes. It is 1 hour and 41 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 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠286.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠286.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠315.8°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 23 December 2032 at 11:34 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 January 2033 at 05:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 400 597 km
The Moon is 400 597 km (248 919 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 354 km (227 020 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 21:36 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 8 January 2033 at 18:31 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 21:36 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 16 December 2032 at 16:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.141°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.115° at the point of next southern standstill on 31 December 2032 at 03:26 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 1 January 2033 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.
