Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
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 6 March 2002 at 01:25.
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 passing about ∠16° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1828"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1828" and ∠1933".
Worm Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2002 after 20 days on 28 March 2002 at 18:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 14 March 2002 at 02:03
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 22 March 2002 at 02:28
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 28 March 2002 at 18:25
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 4 April 2002 at 15:29
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 26 / 979
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 26 of Meeus index or 979 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2002. It is 1 hour and 3 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠155.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠155.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠180.3°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 27 February 2002 at 19:47 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 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 March 2002 at 01:09 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 392 125 km
The Moon is 392 125 km (243 655 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 705 km (252 715 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 6 March 2002 at 16:19 in ♐ Sagittarius. 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 21 March 2002 at 08:14 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 01:59 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.510°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.668° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 22 March 2002 at 19:53.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 14 March 2002 at 02:03 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.
