Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 28% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 28% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 7 March 2029 at 07:52.
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 ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1862"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1862" and ∠1932".
Worm Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2029 after 20 days on 30 March 2029 at 02:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 March 2029 at 04:19
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 23 March 2029 at 07:33
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 30 March 2029 at 02:26
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 5 April 2029 at 19:51
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 360 / 1313
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 360 of Meeus index or 1313 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.74 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2029. It is 27 minutes longer 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠136.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠136.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠164.5°.
Moon before perigee
7 days after 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 16 March 2029 at 21:33 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 384 908 km
The Moon is 384 908 km (239 171 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 528 km (252 605 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 05:00 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 23 March 2029 at 20:28 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 05:00 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous 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 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.763° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 March 2029 at 05:25 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 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.
