Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 12% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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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 24 September 2073 at 12:32.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1926"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1926" and ∠1916".
Hunter Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2073 after 17 days on 16 October 2073 at 01:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 1 October 2073 at 10:21
- First Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 8 October 2073 at 01:56
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 16 October 2073 at 01:54
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 October 2073 at 02:22
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 911 / 1864
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 911 of Meeus index or 1864 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.35 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2073. It is 23 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠334.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠334.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠351.1°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 19 September 2073 at 03:23 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 1 October 2073 at 22:53 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 372 210 km
The Moon is 372 210 km (231 281 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 437 km (222 101 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 04:00 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 10 October 2073 at 18:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 04:00 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 25 September 2073 at 01:43 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.692°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.779° at the point of next southern standstill on 7 October 2073 at 14:29 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 1 October 2073 at 10:21 in ♎ Libra 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.
