Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 22% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 23 October 2035 at 20:57.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1927"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1927" and ∠1930".
Beaver Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2035 after 20 days on 15 November 2035 at 13:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 31 October 2035 at 02:59
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 8 November 2035 at 05:50
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 15 November 2035 at 13:49
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 22 November 2035 at 05:16
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 442 / 1395
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 442 of Meeus index or 1395 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 442 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes. It is 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter than next lunation 443 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 55 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠75°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠75°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠110.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 20 October 2035 at 19:38 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 5 November 2035 at 15:01 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 371 965 km
Moon is 371 965 km (231 128 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 052 km (251 688 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 07:11 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 9 November 2035 at 14:55 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 07:11 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 22 October 2035 at 04:59 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.978°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.089° in the next southern standstill on 4 November 2035 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 31 October 2035 at 02:59 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.