Waning
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 34% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% 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 18 November 2095 at 19:55.
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 ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1788"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1788" and ∠1942".
Cold Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2095 after 20 days on 11 December 2095 at 06:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 November 2095 at 00:54
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 4 December 2095 at 14:21
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 11 December 2095 at 06:21
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 18 December 2095 at 15:14
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 1185 / 2138
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 1185 of Meeus index or 2138 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2095. It is 52 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠192.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠192.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠219.6°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 10 November 2095 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 November 2095 at 06:05 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 400 781 km
The Moon is 400 781 km (249 034 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 873 km (252 198 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 13 November 2095 at 03:43 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 November 2095 at 10:29 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 15 November 2095 at 06:31 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.649°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.668° at the point of next southern standstill on 29 November 2095 at 21:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 27 November 2095 at 00:54 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.
