Waning
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 8% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 2 September 2037 at 22:03.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1946"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1905".
Harvest Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2037 after 16 days on 24 September 2037 at 11:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 September 2037 at 18:25
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 September 2037 at 10:36
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 24 September 2037 at 11:32
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 2 October 2037 at 10:29
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 465 / 1418
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 465 of Meeus index or 1418 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.32 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2037. It is 25 minutes shorter 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠338.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠338.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.5°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 28 August 2037 at 00:28 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 September 2037 at 02:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 368 270 km
The Moon is 368 270 km (228 832 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 229 km (221 972 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 6 September 2037 at 10:34 in ♋ Cancer. 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 19 September 2037 at 02:02 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 5 September 2037 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.473°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.547° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 September 2037 at 19:36 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 9 September 2037 at 18:25 in ♍ Virgo 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.
