Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 37% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 37% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 25 January 2003 at 08:33.
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 in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2003 after 21 days on 16 February 2003 at 23:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 1 February 2003 at 10:48
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 9 February 2003 at 11:11
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 16 February 2003 at 23:51
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 23 February 2003 at 16:46
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 37 / 990
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 37 of Meeus index or 990 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.6 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 26 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 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 1 hour and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠56.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠56.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠90.6°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 23 January 2003 at 22:43 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 February 2003 at 21:58 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 364 767 km
The Moon is 364 767 km (226 656 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 551 km (251 376 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after ascending node on 14 January 2003 at 13:38 in ♊ Gemini. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 January 2003 at 15:23 in ♏ Scorpio.
Draconic month
11 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 17 January 2003 at 02:11 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.794°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-25.834° at the point of next southern standstill on 30 January 2003 at 00:31 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 1 February 2003 at 10:48 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.
