Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 13% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 13% 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 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 in ♍ Virgo
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1934".
Beaver Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2059 after 18 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 26 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
The length of the 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 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠197.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠197.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠225.8°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 04:40. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 19 October 2059 at 23:09 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 17 November 2059 at 04:17 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 405 658 km
This apogee Moon is 405 658 km (252 064 mi) away from Earth. It is 250 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 051 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
10 days after ascending node on 22 October 2059 at 10:13 in ♉ Taurus. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 November 2059 at 17:51 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous 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 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.235° at the point of next southern standstill on 9 November 2059 at 16:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 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.
