Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 24% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 7 March 2010 at 15:42.
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 ∠21° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1932".
Worm Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2010 after 19 days on 30 March 2010 at 02:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 March 2010 at 21:01
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 23 March 2010 at 11:00
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 March 2010 at 02:25
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 6 April 2010 at 09:37
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 125 / 1078
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 125 of Meeus index or 1078 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 10 minutes. It is 2 hours and 42 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 5 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠188.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠188.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠215.2°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 27 February 2010 at 21:40 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 12 March 2010 at 10:07 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 403 072 km
The Moon is 403 072 km (250 457 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 011 km (252 284 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 08:07 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 24 March 2010 at 13:05 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 08:07 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 7 March 2010 at 21:18 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.566°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.420° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 March 2010 at 12:15 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 15 March 2010 at 21:01 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.
