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

Waning Crescent in Capricorn

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 6% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 27 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 5 February 2010 at 23:49.

Snow Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2010 after 17 days on 28 February 2010 at 16:38.

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 ∠1774"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1774" and ∠1944".

Lunation 124 / 1077

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 124 of Meeus index or 1077 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.82 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 40 minutes and it is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2010. 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 6 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠164.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠164.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠188.9°.

Moon before apogee

12 days since point of perigee on 30 January 2010 at 09:03 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 February 2010 at 02:06 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 404 074 km

The Moon is 404 074 km (251 080 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 542 km (252 613 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 04:58 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 25 February 2010 at 09:11 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 8 February 2010 at 14:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.749° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.657° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 February 2010 at 06:00 in ♊ Gemini.

New draconic month

At 04:58 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 14 February 2010 at 02:51 in ♒ Aquarius 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