Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 35% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 35% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 24 October 2073 at 02:22.
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 ∠20° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1912"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1912" and ∠1930".
Beaver Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2073 after 20 days on 14 November 2073 at 19:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 October 2073 at 19:13
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 6 November 2073 at 15:42
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 14 November 2073 at 19:55
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 22 November 2073 at 14:15
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 912 / 1865
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 912 of Meeus index or 1865 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 7 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠351.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠351.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠6.3°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 16 October 2073 at 08:16 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 October 2073 at 10:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 374 852 km
The Moon is 374 852 km (232 922 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 043 km (221 856 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 09:03 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 6 November 2073 at 19:59 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 09:03 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 22 October 2073 at 08:46 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.918°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.020° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 November 2073 at 23:06 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 30 October 2073 at 19:13 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.
