Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 17% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 25 October 2062 at 06:28.
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 ∠17° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1938"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1932".
Beaver Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2062 after 19 days on 16 November 2062 at 20:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 November 2062 at 07:32
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 9 November 2062 at 06:50
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 November 2062 at 20:48
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 23 November 2062 at 13:58
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 776 / 1729
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 776 of Meeus index or 1729 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 43 minutes. It is 2 hours and 45 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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 8 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠54.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠54.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠86.4°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 24 October 2062 at 12:04 in ♋ Cancer. 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 7 November 2062 at 23:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 369 782 km
The Moon is 369 782 km (229 772 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 510 km (251 351 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♍ Virgo at 19:18 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 12 November 2062 at 01:21 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 22 October 2062 at 22:10 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.544°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.465° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 November 2062 at 05:18 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 1 November 2062 at 07:32 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.
