Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 26% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 16 March 2001 at 20:45.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1927".
Pink Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2001 after 19 days on 8 April 2001 at 03:22.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 25 March 2001 at 01:21
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 1 April 2001 at 10:49
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 8 April 2001 at 03:22
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 15 April 2001 at 15:31
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 14 / 967
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 14 of Meeus index or 967 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 1 minute. It is 2 hours and 55 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 4 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠202.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠232.3°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 8 March 2001 at 08:55 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 March 2001 at 11:25 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 404 726 km
The Moon is 404 726 km (251 485 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 473 km (251 949 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 18 March 2001 at 04:58 in ♑ Capricorn. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 12 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2001 at 09:01 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 18 March 2001 at 03:47 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.857°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.007° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 April 2001 at 10:45 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 25 March 2001 at 01:21 in ♈ Aries 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.
