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

Waning Crescent in Virgo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 32% 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 ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 4 November 2042 at 15:51.

Beaver Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2042 after 20 days on 27 November 2042 at 06:06.

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 ∠1806"

Lunar disc appears visually 7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1806" and ∠1936".

Lunation 529 / 1482

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 529 of Meeus index or 1482 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 25 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2042. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠177.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠177.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.7°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 28 October 2042 at 11:27 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 10 November 2042 at 12:15 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 396 974 km

The Moon is 396 974 km (246 668 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 245 km (252 429 mi).

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 27 October 2042 at 16:01 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 10 November 2042 at 01:54 in ♎ Libra.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 1 November 2042 at 17:22 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.455° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.390° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2042 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 12 November 2042 at 20:28 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