Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 9% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 2 February 2005 at 07:27.
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 ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1946".
Snow Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2005 after 17 days on 24 February 2005 at 04:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 8 February 2005 at 22:28
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 16 February 2005 at 00:16
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 24 February 2005 at 04:54
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 3 March 2005 at 17:36
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 62 / 1015
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 62 of Meeus index or 1015 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. It is 17 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 50 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠1.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠1.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠17.1°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 23 January 2005 at 18:54 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 February 2005 at 22:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 363 441 km
The Moon is 363 441 km (225 832 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 564 km (222 801 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 31 January 2005 at 22:49 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 February 2005 at 10:25 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
20 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, 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 5 February 2005 at 21:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.071°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.152° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2005 at 01:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 8 February 2005 at 22:28 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.
