Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
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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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 5 November 2069 at 20:40.
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 ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♎ Libra later.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1798" and ∠1938".
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2069 after 19 days on 28 November 2069 at 13:46.
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.
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.
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°).
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.
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°.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.