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

Waning Crescent in Virgo

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 in ♍ Virgo

Moon is passing about ∠16° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 26 October 2100 at 07:19.

Beaver Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Beaver Moon of November 2100 after 18 days on 16 November 2100 at 22:19.

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 ∠1923"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1932".

Lunation 1246 / 2199

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1246 of Meeus index or 2199 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.38 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 12 minutes and it is 34 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2100. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠340.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠340.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠356.4°.

Moon before perigee

9 days since point of apogee on 20 October 2100 at 04:03 in ♉ Taurus the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 November 2100 at 08:19 in ♏ Scorpio.

Distance to Moon 372 679 km

The Moon is 372 679 km (231 572 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 834 km (221 726 mi).

Moon after descending node

1 day after descending node on 28 October 2100 at 20:12 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 November 2100 at 08:11 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after northern standstill

6 days since the last northern standstill on 23 October 2100 at 08:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.129° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.051° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 November 2100 at 05:15 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

15 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 2 November 2100 at 03:14 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.

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