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 4 November 2061 at 10:53.
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 passing about ∠10° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1887"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1887" and ∠1936".
Beaver Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2061 after 20 days on 27 November 2061 at 06:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 November 2061 at 03:40
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 November 2061 at 08:11
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 27 November 2061 at 06:32
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 December 2061 at 22:12
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 764 / 1717
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 764 of Meeus index or 1717 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
Length of current 764 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. It is 1 hour and 55 minutes shorter than next lunation 765 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠120.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠120.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠151.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 30 October 2061 at 10:28 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 November 2061 at 02:30 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 379 769 km
Moon is 379 769 km (235 978 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 329 km (252 481 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 27 October 2061 at 02:38 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 8 November 2061 at 21:38 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days after previous North standstill on 1 November 2061 at 14:48 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.559°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.489° in the next southern standstill on 15 November 2061 at 15:41 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 12 November 2061 at 03:40 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.