Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 14% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 27 December 2002 at 00:31.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2003 after 18 days on 18 January 2003 at 10:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 January 2003 at 20:23
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 January 2003 at 13:15
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 18 January 2003 at 10:48
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 25 January 2003 at 08:33
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 36 / 989
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 36 of Meeus index or 989 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
Length of current 36 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 48 minutes. It is 1 hour and 38 minutes shorter than next lunation 37 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 59 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠32.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠32.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠56.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 01:06, this is 15 days after last apogee on 14 December 2002 at 03:57 in ♈ Aries. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 11 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 11 January 2003 at 00:43 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 367 904 km
This perigee Moon is 367 904 km (228 605 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 396 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 452 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
12 days after its ascending node on 18 December 2002 at 06:47 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 31 December 2002 at 11:16 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 20 December 2002 at 18:29 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.790°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.783° in the next southern standstill on 2 January 2003 at 16:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 2 January 2003 at 20:23 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.