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 37% 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 passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 26 February 2068 at 06:25.

Worm Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2068 after 20 days on 18 March 2068 at 22:56.

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 ∠1901"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1901" and ∠1937".

Lunation 842 / 1795

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 842 of Meeus index or 1795 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 53 minutes and it is 39 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 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠348.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠348.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠3.9°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 18 February 2068 at 20:46 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 3 March 2068 at 18:11 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 377 032 km

The Moon is 377 032 km (234 277 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 802 km (221 706 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 26 February 2068 at 04:49 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 9 March 2068 at 14:23 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon at southern standstill

At 02:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.894°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.781° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 10 March 2068 at 14:54.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 3 March 2068 at 23:38 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