Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 25% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 25% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 19 October 2076 at 18:51.
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 is entering ♌ Leo
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1929".
Beaver Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2076 after 19 days on 10 November 2076 at 21:07.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Libra ♎ on 27 October 2076 at 20:50
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 4 November 2076 at 01:58
- Full Moon in Taurus ♉ on 10 November 2076 at 21:07
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 18 November 2076 at 15:15
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 949 / 1902
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 949 of Meeus index or 1902 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes. It is 45 minutes longer 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠219.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠219.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠254.1°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 03:11. It is 11 days after previous perigee on 10 October 2076 at 06:57 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 6 November 2076 at 20:15 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 879 km
This apogee Moon is 404 879 km (251 580 mi) away from Earth. It is 529 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 830 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 16 October 2076 at 15:38 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 31 October 2076 at 02:13 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 18 October 2076 at 10:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.937°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.032° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 November 2076 at 19:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 27 October 2076 at 20:50 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.
