Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 26 December 2040 at 17:02.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1895" and ∠1951".
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2041 after 17 days on 17 January 2041 at 07:11.
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.
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 506 of Meeus index or 1459 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 35 minutes. It is 1 hour 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 9 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠323.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠342.7°.
7 days after point of apogee on 22 December 2040 at 13:29 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 January 2041 at 19:39 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 378 166 km (234 981 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 590 km (222 817 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 10:13 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 12 January 2041 at 00:01 in ♉ Taurus.
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
11 days since the previous standstill on 19 December 2040 at 10:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.761°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.763° at the point of next southern standstill on 2 January 2041 at 11:44 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 3 days on 2 January 2041 at 19:08 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.