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

Waning Crescent in Capricorn

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 29% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 28 February 2027 at 05:16.

Worm Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2027 after 19 days on 22 March 2027 at 10:44.

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 ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1936".

Lunation 335 / 1288

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 335 of Meeus index or 1288 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 33 minutes and it is 3 hours and 11 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 4 hours and 49 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠210.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠210.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠242.4°.

Moon before apogee

11 days since point of perigee on 19 February 2027 at 07:30 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 3 March 2027 at 05:41 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 404 984 km

The Moon is 404 984 km (251 645 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 221 km (251 793 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 20 February 2027 at 04:40 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 March 2027 at 04:41 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 1 March 2027 at 09:41 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.684° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.611° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 March 2027 at 14:15 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 8 March 2027 at 09:29 in ♓ Pisces 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