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

Waning Crescent in Virgo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 36% 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 ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 28 November 2086 at 01:17.

Cold Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2086 after 20 days on 20 December 2086 at 08:19.

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 ∠1778"

Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1946".

Lunation 1074 / 2027

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1074 of Meeus index or 2027 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.75 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 54 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠206.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠206.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠238°.

Moon before apogee

10 days since point of perigee on 19 November 2086 at 08:15 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 1 December 2086 at 07:42 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 403 211 km

The Moon is 403 211 km (250 544 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 341 km (251 867 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 21 November 2086 at 04:47 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 5 December 2086 at 09:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Moon before southern standstill

7 days since the last northern standstill on 22 November 2086 at 03:31 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.622° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-21.623° at the point of next southern standstill on 6 December 2086 at 12:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

21 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 6 December 2086 at 05:48 in ♐ Sagittarius 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