Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 26% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 24 January 2014 at 05:19.
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 ∠5° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1936"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1936" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2014 after 19 days on 14 February 2014 at 23:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 30 January 2014 at 21:39
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 6 February 2014 at 19:22
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 14 February 2014 at 23:53
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 22 February 2014 at 17:15
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 173 / 1126
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 173 of Meeus index or 1126 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 24 minutes. It is 3 minutes longer 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 20 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 49 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠353°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠353°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠8.3°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 16 January 2014 at 01:53 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 30 January 2014 at 09:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 370 152 km
The Moon is 370 152 km (230 002 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 080 km (221 879 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 24 January 2014 at 02:55 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 February 2014 at 12:41 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 13 January 2014 at 08:14 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠19.501°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-19.396° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 January 2014 at 16:31 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 30 January 2014 at 21:39 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.
