Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 17% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days 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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1823"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1823" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2033 after 18 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 25 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
5 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 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 January 2033 at 05:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 393 091 km
The Moon is 393 091 km (244 255 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 354 km (227 020 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 26 December 2032 at 21:36 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 January 2033 at 18:31 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 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 2 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 3 days
In 3 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.
