Waning
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 5% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 27 August 2062 at 17:49.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠14° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1966"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1966" and ∠1902".
Harvest Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2062 after 17 days on 18 September 2062 at 18:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 September 2062 at 08:42
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 September 2062 at 15:59
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 September 2062 at 18:36
- Last Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 September 2062 at 00:11
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 774 / 1727
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 774 of Meeus index or 1727 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.33 days
Length of current 774 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than next lunation 775 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 27 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠14°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠14°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠31.5°. 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 in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 10:35, this is 15 days after last apogee on 16 August 2062 at 18:05 in ♑ Capricorn. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 11 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 13 September 2062 at 08:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 362 122 km
This perigee Moon is 362 122 km (225 012 mi) away from Earth. It is 386 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 8 234 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 22 August 2062 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces, 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 4 September 2062 at 03:11 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days after previous North standstill on 29 August 2062 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.645°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.670° in the next southern standstill on 11 September 2062 at 13:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 3 September 2062 at 08:42 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.