Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 13% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 13% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 26 January 2011 at 12:57.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1861"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1948".
Snow Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2011 after 18 days on 18 February 2011 at 08:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 3 February 2011 at 02:31
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 11 February 2011 at 07:18
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 18 February 2011 at 08:36
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 24 February 2011 at 23:26
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 136 / 1089
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 136 of Meeus index or 1089 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 136 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 28 minutes. It is 47 minutes shorter than next lunation 137 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 44 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠103.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠103.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠139.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 22 January 2011 at 00:10 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 6 February 2011 at 23:13 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 385 119 km
Moon is 385 119 km (239 302 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 924 km (252 229 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 18:29 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 14 February 2011 at 08:14 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 18:29 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 29 January 2011 at 16:26 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-24.180°. Next 13 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠24.080° in the next northern standstill on 13 February 2011 at 09:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 3 February 2011 at 02:31 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.