Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 8% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 11 January 2007 at 12:45.
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 ∠22° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1840"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1951".
Snow Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2007 after 16 days on 2 February 2007 at 05:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 19 January 2007 at 04:01
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 25 January 2007 at 23:02
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 2 February 2007 at 05:45
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 10 February 2007 at 09:51
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 86 / 1039
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 86 of Meeus index or 1039 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 1 minute. It is 1 hour and 46 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 1 hour and 16 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 47 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠276.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠276.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠308.6°.
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 10 January 2007 at 16:26 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 22 January 2007 at 12:24 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 389 588 km
The Moon is 389 588 km (242 079 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 929 km (227 999 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after descending node on 8 January 2007 at 17:44 in ♍ Virgo. 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 22 January 2007 at 13:00 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 22:07 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.448°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.501° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 January 2007 at 18:19.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 19 January 2007 at 04:01 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
