Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Capricorn

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 38% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 7 March 2029 at 07:52.

Worm Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2029 after 21 days on 30 March 2029 at 02:26.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1886"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1933".

Lunation 360 / 1313

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 360 of Meeus index or 1313 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.74 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes and it is 27 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2029. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠136.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠136.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠164.5°.

Moon after perigee

6 days since point of perigee on 1 March 2029 at 18:30 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 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 March 2029 at 21:33 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 380 123 km

The Moon is 380 123 km (236 197 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 528 km (252 605 mi).

Moon before ascending node

11 days after descending node on 24 February 2029 at 16:44 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 9 March 2029 at 05:00 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 7 March 2029 at 11:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.921° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.763° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 March 2029 at 05:25 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 15 March 2029 at 04:19 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov