Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 7% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 27 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 4 October 2053 at 23:01.
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 ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1928"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1928" and ∠1922".
Hunter Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2053 after 17 days on 27 October 2053 at 10:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 11 October 2053 at 20:53
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 19 October 2053 at 16:54
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 October 2053 at 10:38
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 3 November 2053 at 05:37
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 664 / 1617
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 664 of Meeus index or 1617 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 44 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠43.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠43.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠71.2°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 6 October 2053 at 10:09 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 October 2053 at 07:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 371 751 km
The Moon is 371 751 km (230 995 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 9 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 289 km (251 214 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♍ Virgo at 12:15 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 23 October 2053 at 18:33 in ♓ Pisces.
New draconic month
At 12:15 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 4 October 2053 at 08:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.380°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.447° at the point of next southern standstill on 17 October 2053 at 18:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 11 October 2053 at 20:53 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.
