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Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase on 21 February 2047 Thursday is Waning Crescent, 26 days old Moon is in Capricorn.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 17 February 2047 at 06:42.
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 passing about ∠25° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1864" and ∠1940".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2047 after 18 days on 12 March 2047 at 01:37.
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.
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 582 of Meeus index or 1535 from Brown series.
Length of current 582 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes. It is 36 minutes shorter than next lunation 583 length.
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 5 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠96.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠133°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
8 days after point of perigee on 13 February 2047 at 00:46 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 March 2047 at 00:38 in ♉ Taurus.
Moon is 384 622 km (238 993 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 695 km (252 087 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 11:46 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 8 March 2047 at 01:12 in ♋ Cancer.
At 11:46 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
2 days after previous South standstill on 18 February 2047 at 21:07 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.990°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.881° in the next northern standstill on 5 March 2047 at 11:00 in ♊ Gemini.
After 3 days on 24 February 2047 at 18:26 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.