Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Virgo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 20% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠15° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 28 October 2059 at 04:31.

Beaver Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2059 after 19 days on 19 November 2059 at 13:09.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1933".

Lunation 739 / 1692

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 739 of Meeus index or 1692 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.72 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 22 minutes and it is 44 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2059. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 4 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠197.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠197.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠225.8°.

Moon before apogee

11 days since point of perigee on 19 October 2059 at 23:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 November 2059 at 04:40 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 404 949 km

The Moon is 404 949 km (251 624 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 658 km (252 064 mi).

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 22 October 2059 at 10:13 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 November 2059 at 17:51 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

5 days since the last northern standstill on 26 October 2059 at 00:58 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.221° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.235° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 November 2059 at 16:49 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 5 November 2059 at 09:11 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov