Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 8% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 17 February 2028 at 08:08.
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 is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1778"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1778" and ∠1940".
Worm Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2028 after 17 days on 11 March 2028 at 01:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 25 February 2028 at 10:37
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 4 March 2028 at 09:02
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 11 March 2028 at 01:06
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 17 March 2028 at 23:23
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 347 / 1300
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 347 of Meeus index or 1300 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2028. It is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 41 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 22 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠161.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠161.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠186.5°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 10 February 2028 at 19:53 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 February 2028 at 16:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 403 048 km
The Moon is 403 048 km (250 442 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 563 km (252 627 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 13:11 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 7 March 2028 at 18:06 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 13:11 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 19 February 2028 at 03:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.565°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.467° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 March 2028 at 21:13 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 25 February 2028 at 10:37 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.
