Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 18% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 18% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 5 February 2010 at 23:49.
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 is entering ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1796"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1945".
Snow Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2010 after 19 days on 28 February 2010 at 16:38.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 14 February 2010 at 02:51
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 22 February 2010 at 00:42
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 28 February 2010 at 16:38
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 7 March 2010 at 15:42
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 124 / 1077
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 124 of Meeus index or 1077 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.82 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2010. It is 1 hour and 30 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 6 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 7 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠164.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠164.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠188.9°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 30 January 2010 at 09:03 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 February 2010 at 02:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 399 107 km
The Moon is 399 107 km (247 994 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 542 km (252 613 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 29 January 2010 at 00:02 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 11 February 2010 at 04:58 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, 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 8 February 2010 at 14:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.749°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.657° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 February 2010 at 06:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 14 February 2010 at 02:51 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.
