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

Waning Crescent in Sagittarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 24 February 2041 at 00:29.

Worm Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2041 after 20 days on 17 March 2041 at 20:19.

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 ∠1934"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1938".

Lunation 508 / 1461

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 508 of Meeus index or 1461 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes and it is 6 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠358.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠358.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠14°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since point of apogee on 14 February 2041 at 23:03 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 1 March 2041 at 19:56 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 370 561 km

The Moon is 370 561 km (230 256 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 003 km (222 453 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 22 February 2041 at 16:13 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 7 March 2041 at 03:29 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 11 February 2041 at 21:04 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.907° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-27.040° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 February 2041 at 07:28 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♉ Taurus the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 2 March 2041 at 15:39 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