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 1% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 28 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 in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

7 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 7 days on 1 January 2035 at 10:01.

Wolf Moon after 15 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2035 after 15 days on 23 January 2035 at 20:16.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1951".

Lunation 432 / 1385

The Moon is 28 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 432 of Meeus index or 1385 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.78 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes and it is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠192.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠192.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠220.5°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 5 January 2035 at 18:52 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 21 January 2035 at 18:05 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 402 946 km

The Moon is 402 946 km (250 379 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 13 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 707 km (225 376 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 30 December 2034 at 13:10 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 14 January 2035 at 03:01 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon at southern standstill

At 08:12 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-18.547°. Over the upcoming 13 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt northward to face maximum declination of ∠18.494° at the point of next northern standstill in ♊ Gemini on 21 January 2035 at 19:52.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 9 January 2035 at 15:03 in ♑ Capricorn 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