Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 10% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 18 October 2049 at 17:55.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1929".
Beaver Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2049 after 17 days on 9 November 2049 at 15:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 26 October 2049 at 16:15
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 2 November 2049 at 16:19
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 November 2049 at 15:38
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 November 2049 at 14:32
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 615 / 1568
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 615 of Meeus index or 1568 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 10 minutes. It is 49 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 1 hour and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠241.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠241.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠278.3°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 19 October 2049 at 18:32 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 November 2049 at 18:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 399 172 km
The Moon is 399 172 km (248 034 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 118 km (229 981 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 14 October 2049 at 06:20 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 October 2049 at 15:39 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 15 October 2049 at 15:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.344°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.292° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 October 2049 at 23:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 26 October 2049 at 16:15 in ♎ Libra 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.
