Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 29% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 29% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 28 October 2059 at 04:31.
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 is entering ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1777"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1777" and ∠1933".
Beaver Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2059 after 20 days on 19 November 2059 at 13:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 5 November 2059 at 09:11
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 12 November 2059 at 20:45
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 19 November 2059 at 13:09
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 26 November 2059 at 23:42
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 739 / 1692
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 739 of Meeus index or 1692 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 739 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2059. It is 44 minutes longer than next lunation 740 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 25 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠197.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠197.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠225.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 19 October 2059 at 23:09 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 November 2059 at 04:40 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 403 438 km
Moon is 403 438 km (250 685 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 658 km (252 064 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 22 October 2059 at 10:13 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 5 November 2059 at 17:51 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 26 October 2059 at 00:58 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.221°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.235° in the next southern standstill on 9 November 2059 at 16:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 5 November 2059 at 09:11 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.