Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 5% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 22 February 2014 at 17:15.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1937".
Worm Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2014 after 17 days on 16 March 2014 at 17:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 1 March 2014 at 08:00
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 8 March 2014 at 13:27
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 16 March 2014 at 17:09
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 24 March 2014 at 01:46
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 174 / 1127
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 174 of Meeus index or 1127 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 21 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2014. It is 24 minutes shorter 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 23 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 46 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠8.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠8.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠25.1°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 19:52. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 12 February 2014 at 05:09 in ♋ Cancer. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next apogee on 11 March 2014 at 19:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 360 439 km
This perigee Moon is 360 439 km (223 966 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 069 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 9 917 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 20 February 2014 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 4 March 2014 at 17:45 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 24 February 2014 at 01:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.175°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.084° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 March 2014 at 22:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 1 March 2014 at 08:00 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.
