Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 4% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 6 January 2002 at 03:55.
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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1849"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2002 after 17 days on 28 January 2002 at 22:50.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 13 January 2002 at 13:29
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 21 January 2002 at 17:47
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 28 January 2002 at 22:50
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 4 February 2002 at 13:33
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 24 / 977
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 24 of Meeus index or 977 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠86.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠86.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠123.9°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 2 January 2002 at 07:13 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 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 January 2002 at 08:50 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 387 574 km
The Moon is 387 574 km (240 827 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 503 km (251 968 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 11:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 26 January 2002 at 00:27 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 30 December 2001 at 15:40 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠24.244°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-24.240° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 January 2002 at 15:26 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 13 January 2002 at 13:29 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.
