Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 36% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 36% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 November 2053 at 05:37.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1954"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1935".
Beaver Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2053 after 21 days on 25 November 2053 at 22:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 10 November 2053 at 10:55
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 18 November 2053 at 13:26
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 25 November 2053 at 22:21
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 2 December 2053 at 14:04
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 665 / 1618
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 665 of Meeus index or 1618 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 43 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 18 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠71.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠71.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠106.8°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 31 October 2053 at 10:02 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 November 2053 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 366 750 km
The Moon is 366 750 km (227 888 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 957 km (251 629 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 23 October 2053 at 18:33 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 5 November 2053 at 16:13 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 31 October 2053 at 15:02 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.541°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.637° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2053 at 03:32 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 10 November 2053 at 10:55 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.
