Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 39% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 39% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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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 9 November 2085 at 08:31.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1938".
Cold Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2085 after 20 days on 1 December 2085 at 08:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 November 2085 at 08:20
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 24 November 2085 at 10:02
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 December 2085 at 08:10
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 9 December 2085 at 05:47
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 1061 / 2014
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 1061 of Meeus index or 2014 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 21 minutes. It is 1 hour and 3 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 37 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠234.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠234.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠271.2°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 18:58. It is 11 days after previous perigee on 29 October 2085 at 23:49 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 25 November 2085 at 13:37 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 404 585 km
This apogee Moon is 404 585 km (251 397 mi) away from Earth. It is 823 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 2 124 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 4 November 2085 at 22:57 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 19 November 2085 at 09:10 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
18 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 4 November 2085 at 14:11 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠23.345°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-23.309° at the point of next southern standstill on 19 November 2085 at 01:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 17 November 2085 at 08:20 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.
