Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 28% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 28% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 15 February 2001 at 03:24.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1941".
Worm Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2001 after 20 days on 9 March 2001 at 17:23.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 23 February 2001 at 08:21
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 3 March 2001 at 02:03
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 March 2001 at 17:23
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 March 2001 at 20:45
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.
Lunation 13 / 966
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 13 of Meeus index or 966 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.8 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 14 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2001. It is 2 hours and 14 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 7 hours and 1 minute longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 33 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠177.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠177.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠202.8°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 7 February 2001 at 22:19 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 February 2001 at 21:38 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 399 104 km
The Moon is 399 104 km (247 992 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 332 km (252 483 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 6 February 2001 at 00:48 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 19 February 2001 at 02:52 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 5 February 2001 at 19:54 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠22.604°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-22.648° at the point of next southern standstill on 18 February 2001 at 21:27 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 23 February 2001 at 08:21 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.
