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Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 27 August 2062 at 17:49.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1902".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2062 after 16 days on 18 September 2062 at 18:36.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 28 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.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 2 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠14°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠31.5°.
1 day after point of perigee on 1 September 2062 at 10:35 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 September 2062 at 08:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
The Moon is 366 814 km (227 928 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 840 km (251 556 mi).
11 days after ascending node on 22 August 2062 at 04:45 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 September 2062 at 03:11 in ♍ Virgo.
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
4 days since the previous standstill on 29 August 2062 at 10:48 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.645°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.670° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 September 2062 at 13:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
In 1 day on 3 September 2062 at 08:42 in ♍ Virgo 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.