Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Leo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 9% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♌ Leo

Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 31 August 2067 at 14:04.

Harvest Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2067 after 17 days on 23 September 2067 at 00:54.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1903".

Lunation 836 / 1789

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 836 of Meeus index or 1789 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 32 minutes and it is 13 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2067. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠183°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠183° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠207.1°.

Moon at apogee

Moon is at apogee at 23:25 about 12 days since last perigee on 24 August 2067 at 03:23 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the upcoming 15 days until point of next perigee on 21 September 2067 at 11:31 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 406 157 km

This apogee Moon is 406 157 km (252 374 mi) away from Earth. It is 749 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 552 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 1 September 2067 at 06:54 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 15 September 2067 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon after northern standstill

4 days since the last northern standstill on 1 September 2067 at 09:55 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.778° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-22.627° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 September 2067 at 01:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 8 September 2067 at 18:09 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov