Waning Crescent in Libra
Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% 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.
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Upcoming main moon phases
Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moon in ♎ Libra
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector.
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 14 November 2014 at 15:16.
Cold Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2014 after 18 days on 6 December 2014 at 12:27.
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 ∠1792"
Lunar disc appears visually 8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1792" and ∠1941".
Lunation 183 / 1136
The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 183 of Meeus index or 1136 from Brown series.
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Synodic month length 29.61 days
The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 36 minutes and it is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 52 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 11 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit details for
True anomaly ∠252.3°
The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠252.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠289.3°.
Moon after apogee
3 days since point of apogee on 15 November 2014 at 01:56 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 27 November 2014 at 23:11 in ♒ Aquarius.
Last apogee | Next perigee
Distance to Moon 400 033 km
The Moon is 400 033 km (248 569 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 825 km (229 799 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after descending node on 5 November 2014 at 03:13 in ♈ Aries the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 November 2014 at 08:18 in ♎ Libra.
Last node | Next node
Moon before southern standstill
8 days since the last northern standstill on 9 November 2014 at 23:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.575° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.625° at the point of next southern standstill on 24 November 2014 at 08:17 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Last standstill | Next standstill
Draconic month
26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.
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Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 22 November 2014 at 12:32 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.
Last syzygy | Next syzygy
Lunar calendar
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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