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 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 6 March 2097 at 02:47.

Worm Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2097 after 20 days on 27 March 2097 at 21:28.

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 ∠1771"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1933".

Lunation 1201 / 2154

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1201 of Meeus index or 2154 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 38 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 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠257.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠257.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠293.2°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 6 March 2097 at 06:30 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 March 2097 at 19:21 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 404 711 km

The Moon is 404 711 km (251 476 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 258 km (229 446 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 3 March 2097 at 10:12 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 17 March 2097 at 10:29 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon at southern standstill

At 20:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.286°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.386° at the point of next northern standstill in ♋ Cancer on 21 March 2097 at 05:57.

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 6 days

In 6 days on 13 March 2097 at 21:56 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