Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 5% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 4 November 2042 at 15:51.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1938".
Beaver Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2042 after 16 days on 27 November 2042 at 06:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 November 2042 at 20:28
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 November 2042 at 14:31
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 November 2042 at 06:06
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 4 December 2042 at 09:19
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 529 / 1482
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 529 of Meeus index or 1482 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2042. It is 24 minutes 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°).
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 position on
True anomaly ∠177.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠177.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 12:15. It is 13 days after previous perigee on 28 October 2042 at 11:27 in ♉ Taurus. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 25 November 2042 at 22:40 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 406 245 km
This apogee Moon is 406 245 km (252 429 mi) away from Earth. It is 837 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 464 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♎ Libra at 01:54 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 24 November 2042 at 01:03 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the previous 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 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.390° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2042 at 08:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 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.
