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

Waning Crescent in Leo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 36% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ♌ Leo

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 3 November 2034 at 03:27.

Beaver Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2034 after 21 days on 25 November 2034 at 22:32.

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 ∠1874"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1874" and ∠1935".

Lunation 430 / 1383

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 430 of Meeus index or 1383 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.74 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 44 minutes and it is 1 hour and 14 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠141.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠141.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.1°.

Moon after perigee

7 days since point of perigee on 28 October 2034 at 10:16 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 November 2034 at 09:37 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 382 465 km

The Moon is 382 465 km (237 653 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 644 km (252 677 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 24 October 2034 at 18:23 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 November 2034 at 10:15 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 31 October 2034 at 08:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.332° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.431° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2034 at 17:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 11 November 2034 at 01:16 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