Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 16% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 16% 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 15 February 2020 at 22:17.
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 ∠13° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1850"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1941".
Worm Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2020 after 19 days on 9 March 2020 at 17:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 23 February 2020 at 15:32
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 2 March 2020 at 19:57
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 9 March 2020 at 17:48
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 16 March 2020 at 09:34
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 248 / 1201
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 248 of Meeus index or 1201 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes. It is 6 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠120.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠120.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152.6°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 10 February 2020 at 20:31 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 February 2020 at 11:35 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 387 382 km
The Moon is 387 382 km (240 708 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 277 km (252 449 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♑ Capricorn at 00:12 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 4 March 2020 at 14:58 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 08:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.319°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.441° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 5 March 2020 at 01:34.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 23 February 2020 at 15:32 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.
