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

Waning Crescent in Capricorn

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 8% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 26 days old.

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.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 7 February 2048 at 03:16.

Snow Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2048 after 18 days on 29 February 2048 at 14:38.

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 ∠1938"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1938" and ∠1944".

Lunation 594 / 1547

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 594 of Meeus index or 1547 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.54 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 59 minutes and it is 57 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 15 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 48 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠37.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠37.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠64.6°.

Moon after perigee

2 days since point of perigee on 9 February 2048 at 09:12 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 February 2048 at 18:29 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 369 920 km

The Moon is 369 920 km (229 858 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 268 km (251 200 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 10 February 2048 at 12:30 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 February 2048 at 12:13 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 9 February 2048 at 07:42 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.460° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.357° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 February 2048 at 04:06 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 14 February 2048 at 00:31 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