Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 41% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 41% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 3 March 2005 at 17:36.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1960"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1960" and ∠1935".
Worm Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2005 after 21 days on 25 March 2005 at 20:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 March 2005 at 09:10
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 17 March 2005 at 19:19
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 March 2005 at 20:58
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 2 April 2005 at 00:50
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 63 / 1016
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 63 of Meeus index or 1016 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes. It is 40 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 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠17.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠17.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠36.2°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 20 February 2005 at 04:59 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 March 2005 at 03:42 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 365 785 km
The Moon is 365 785 km (227 288 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 363 235 km (225 704 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after descending node on 28 February 2005 at 00:10 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 March 2005 at 17:37 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
19 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 before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 19 February 2005 at 01:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.152°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-28.257° at the point of next southern standstill on 5 March 2005 at 04:40 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 10 March 2005 at 09:10 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.
