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 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 ∠6° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 2 January 2062 at 13:21.

Wolf Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2062 after 15 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1951".

Lunation 766 / 1719

The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 766 of Meeus index or 1719 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.81 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 20 minutes and it is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2062. 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 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠176.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠176.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠201.9°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 January 2062 at 20:23 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 405 222 km

The Moon is 405 222 km (251 793 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 491 km (223 377 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 2 January 2062 at 00:30 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 16 January 2062 at 15:36 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon at southern standstill

At 02:13 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.405°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.481° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 January 2062 at 20:38.

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 1 day

In 1 day on 10 January 2062 at 17:52 in ♑ Capricorn 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