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 3% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ∠17° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 25 August 2073 at 21:05.

Harvest Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2073 after 15 days on 16 September 2073 at 08:52.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1918"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1918" and ∠1901".

Lunation 910 / 1863

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 910 of Meeus index or 1863 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.37 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 49 minutes and it is 20 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 55 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠313.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠313.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠334.3°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 22 August 2073 at 13:26 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 September 2073 at 14:51 in ♍ Virgo.

Distance to Moon 373 805 km

The Moon is 373 805 km (232 272 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 664 km (224 106 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 18:55 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 13 September 2073 at 16:02 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after northern standstill

2 days since the last northern standstill on 28 August 2073 at 17:17 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.572° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.604° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 September 2073 at 08:21 in ♑ Capricorn.

New draconic month

At 18:55 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 2 September 2073 at 01:52 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