Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 24% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 18 December 2095 at 15:14.
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 is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2096 after 19 days on 9 January 2096 at 19:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 December 2095 at 18:24
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 January 2096 at 23:02
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 January 2096 at 19:20
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2096 at 12:50
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 1186 / 2139
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 1186 of Meeus index or 2139 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 1186 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 30 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 minutes longer than next lunation 1187 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 17 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠219.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠219.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠255°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 20 December 2095 at 23:26 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 15 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 5 January 2096 at 18:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 405 473 km
Moon is 405 473 km (251 949 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 15 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 290 km (228 845 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 10 December 2095 at 14:42 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 24 December 2095 at 17:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
8 days after previous North standstill on 12 December 2095 at 17:11 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.653°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.640° in the next southern standstill on 27 December 2095 at 03:42 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 26 December 2095 at 18:24 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.