Waning
Crescent ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 23% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 23% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 24 November 2089 at 23:18.
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 in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1940"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1945".
Cold Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2089 after 20 days on 17 December 2089 at 15:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 December 2089 at 03:11
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 10 December 2089 at 04:52
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 17 December 2089 at 15:37
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 24 December 2089 at 07:55
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 1111 / 2064
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 1111 of Meeus index or 2064 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 17 minutes. It is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠64.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠64.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 22 November 2089 at 17:03 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 December 2089 at 04:46 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 369 534 km
The Moon is 369 534 km (229 618 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 778 km (251 517 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♎ Libra at 10:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 11 December 2089 at 15:27 in ♈ Aries.
New draconic month
At 10:18 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before southern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 20 November 2089 at 09:39 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.377°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.433° at the point of next southern standstill on 3 December 2089 at 12:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 2 December 2089 at 03:11 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.
