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 15% 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 ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 12 February 2061 at 11:52.

Worm Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2061 after 17 days on 6 March 2061 at 05:54.

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 ∠1807"

Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1807" and ∠1942".

Lunation 755 / 1708

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 755 of Meeus index or 1708 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 15 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 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 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 32 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠265.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠265.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠299.9°.

Moon after apogee

4 days since point of apogee on 12 February 2061 at 05:47 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 February 2061 at 09:19 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 396 587 km

The Moon is 396 587 km (246 428 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 440 km (228 938 mi).

Moon after descending node

6 days after descending node on 9 February 2061 at 17:58 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 23 February 2061 at 16:18 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 15 February 2061 at 18:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.209° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.299° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 February 2061 at 20:22 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 20 February 2061 at 05:31 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