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 ♌ Leo.
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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 4 November 2091 at 10:27.
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 ♌ Leo
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1900"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1900" and ∠1936".
Beaver Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2091 after 20 days on 26 November 2091 at 03:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 November 2091 at 03:42
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 17 November 2091 at 23:38
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 26 November 2091 at 03:43
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 3 December 2091 at 22:55
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 1135 / 2088
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 1135 of Meeus index or 2088 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 13 minutes. It is 59 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠349.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠349.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4.7°.
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of apogee on 27 October 2091 at 22:34 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 November 2091 at 21:06 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 377 310 km
The Moon is 377 310 km (234 450 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 866 km (221 746 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 17:50 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 18 November 2091 at 04:24 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 17:50 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 1 November 2091 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.224°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.311° at the point of next southern standstill on 14 November 2091 at 09:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 11 November 2091 at 03:42 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.
