Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 17% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% 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 1 March 2016 at 23:11.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1881"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1881" and ∠1934".
Worm Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2016 after 18 days on 23 March 2016 at 12:01.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 March 2016 at 01:54
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 15 March 2016 at 17:03
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 23 March 2016 at 12:01
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 31 March 2016 at 15:17
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 199 / 1152
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 199 of Meeus index or 1152 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 199 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 minutes longer than next lunation 200 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 41 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠319.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠339.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
7 days after point of apogee on 27 February 2016 at 03:28 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 March 2016 at 07:02 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 380 983 km
Moon is 380 983 km (236 732 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 4 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 509 km (223 389 mi).
Moon before descending node
10 days after its ascending node on 24 February 2016 at 06:10 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 9 March 2016 at 06:31 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
10 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
1 day after previous South standstill on 3 March 2016 at 14:19 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.210°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.206° in the next northern standstill on 16 March 2016 at 05:01 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 9 March 2016 at 01:54 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.