Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 37% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 37% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 2 March 2035 at 03:01.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1935".
Worm Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2035 after 20 days on 23 March 2035 at 22:42.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 March 2035 at 23:09
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 16 March 2035 at 20:15
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 23 March 2035 at 22:42
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 31 March 2035 at 23:06
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 434 / 1387
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 434 of Meeus index or 1387 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 59 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 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠255.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠255.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠291.6°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 2 March 2035 at 09:34 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2035 at 01:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 404 892 km
The Moon is 404 892 km (251 588 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 11 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 413 km (229 543 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after ascending node on 23 February 2035 at 04:20 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 6 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 9 March 2035 at 15:01 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
8 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days since the previous standstill on 18 February 2035 at 04:16 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.402°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-18.382° at the point of next southern standstill on 4 March 2035 at 01:09 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 9 March 2035 at 23:09 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.
