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 26% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 14 November 2060 at 23:48.

Cold Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2060 after 20 days on 7 December 2060 at 14:48.

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 ∠1798"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1941".

Lunation 752 / 1705

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 752 of Meeus index or 1705 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.78 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 50 minutes and it is 26 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2060. 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 6 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠174.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠174.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.1°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 7 November 2060 at 22:11 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 November 2060 at 01:49 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 398 615 km

The Moon is 398 615 km (247 688 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 318 km (252 474 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 7 November 2060 at 00:56 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 20 November 2060 at 10:05 in ♎ Libra.

Moon after northern standstill

6 days since the last northern standstill on 11 November 2060 at 10:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.098° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.046° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 November 2060 at 22:28 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

10 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 5 days

In 5 days on 23 November 2060 at 04:16 in ♐ Sagittarius 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