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 5 November 2069 at 20:40.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1798"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1938".
Beaver Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2069 after 19 days on 28 November 2069 at 13:46.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 13 November 2069 at 22:38
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 21 November 2069 at 21:31
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 28 November 2069 at 13:46
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 5 December 2069 at 12:03
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 863 / 1816
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 863 of Meeus index or 1816 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 34 minutes. It is 26 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 5 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠161.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠161.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠185.4°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 30 October 2069 at 09:15 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 November 2069 at 07:36 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 398 601 km
The Moon is 398 601 km (247 679 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 514 km (252 596 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 29 October 2069 at 23:39 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 2 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 November 2069 at 11:24 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 2 November 2069 at 01:44 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.271°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.293° at the point of next southern standstill on 16 November 2069 at 09:59 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 13 November 2069 at 22:38 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.
