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Moon ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 3% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 4 February 2002 at 13:33.
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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1801"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1801" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2002 after 16 days on 27 February 2002 at 09:17.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 12 February 2002 at 07:41
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 20 February 2002 at 12:02
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 27 February 2002 at 09:17
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 6 March 2002 at 01:25
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 25 / 978
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 25 of Meeus index or 978 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes. It is 10 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 5 hours and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠123.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠123.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠155.3°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 30 January 2002 at 09:02 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 February 2002 at 22:22 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 398 043 km
The Moon is 398 043 km (247 332 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 361 km (252 501 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 7 February 2002 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 22 February 2002 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
15 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 8 February 2002 at 20:59 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.309°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.418° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 February 2002 at 11:48 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 12 February 2002 at 07:41 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
