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

Waning Crescent in Scorpio

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 14% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 is entering ♏ Scorpio

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 3 December 2091 at 22:55.

Cold Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2091 after 18 days on 25 December 2091 at 21:59.

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 ∠1971"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1971" and ∠1948".

Lunation 1136 / 2089

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1136 of Meeus index or 2089 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠4.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠4.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠20.8°.

Moon before perigee

13 days since point of apogee on 23 November 2091 at 23:32 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 December 2091 at 08:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 363 629 km

The Moon is 363 629 km (225 949 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 394 km (223 317 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 2 December 2091 at 18:52 in ♌ Leo 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 15 December 2091 at 07:03 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon before southern standstill

8 days since the last northern standstill on 28 November 2091 at 22:15 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.417° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-19.452° at the point of next southern standstill on 11 December 2091 at 21:10 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 10 December 2091 at 13:54 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