Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 38% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 38% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 3 January 2043 at 06:08.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2043 after 20 days on 25 January 2043 at 06:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 January 2043 at 06:53
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2043 at 09:05
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2043 at 06:56
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2043 at 04:14
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 531 / 1484
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 531 of Meeus index or 1484 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 24 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 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 3 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠232°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠232°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.3°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 19:56. It is 11 days after previous perigee on 24 December 2042 at 02:12 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 19 January 2043 at 20:02 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 404 558 km
This apogee Moon is 404 558 km (251 381 mi) away from Earth. It is 850 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 151 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 3 January 2043 at 07:24 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2043 at 04:57 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
14 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 26 December 2042 at 13:20 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.289°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 January 2043 at 20:09 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 11 January 2043 at 06:53 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.
