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 40% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 7 November 2077 at 12:09.

Beaver Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2077 after 21 days on 29 November 2077 at 21:43.

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 ∠1795"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1795" and ∠1937".

Lunation 962 / 1915

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 962 of Meeus index or 1915 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.75 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 53 minutes and it is 47 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2077. 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠194.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠194.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠222.6°.

Moon before apogee

9 days since point of perigee on 30 October 2077 at 10:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 November 2077 at 17:19 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 399 346 km

The Moon is 399 346 km (248 142 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 768 km (252 133 mi).

Moon after ascending node

6 days after ascending node on 1 November 2077 at 18:57 in ♉ Taurus the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 16 November 2077 at 02:10 in ♏ Scorpio.

Moon after northern standstill

3 days since the last northern standstill on 4 November 2077 at 15:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.487° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-26.504° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 November 2077 at 07:28 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

6 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 7 days

In 7 days on 15 November 2077 at 17:00 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.

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