Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 33% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 33% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 30 December 2064 at 23:50.
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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2065 after 20 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 6 January 2065 at 19:15
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 14 January 2065 at 13:19
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 22 January 2065 at 09:53
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 29 January 2065 at 07:38
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 803 / 1756
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 803 of Meeus index or 1756 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 46 minutes. It is 2 hours and 1 minute 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 hours and 1 minute shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠33°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠33°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠57.9°.
Moon before apogee
14 days after point of apogee on 18 December 2064 at 01:06 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 January 2065 at 20:34 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 363 335 km
The Moon is 363 335 km (225 766 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 142 km (228 753 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 26 December 2064 at 08:47 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 8 January 2065 at 05:38 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 22 December 2064 at 22:07 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.786°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.815° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 January 2065 at 00:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 6 January 2065 at 19:15 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
