Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Sagittarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 30 December 2075 at 13:20.

Wolf Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2076 after 16 days on 21 January 2076 at 04:39.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1951"

Lunar disc appears visually 0% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1951".

Lunation 939 / 1892

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 939 of Meeus index or 1892 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 11 minutes and it is 24 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2076. 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 1 hour and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠337.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠337.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 24 December 2075 at 19:52 in ♋ Cancer the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 January 2076 at 18:38 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 367 469 km

The Moon is 367 469 km (228 335 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 990 km (221 823 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 22 December 2075 at 18:35 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 5 January 2076 at 17:45 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 23 December 2075 at 08:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.513° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-23.509° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 January 2076 at 04:17 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 6 January 2076 at 10:14 in ♑ Capricorn 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