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 38% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 23 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 7 March 2048 at 10:45.

Worm Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2048 after 21 days on 30 March 2048 at 02:04.

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 ∠1961"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1932".

Lunation 595 / 1548

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 595 of Meeus index or 1548 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.58 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 56 minutes and it is 56 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 1 hour and 12 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠64.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠64.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠100.4°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 5 March 2048 at 02:21 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 March 2048 at 14:41 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 365 529 km

The Moon is 365 529 km (227 129 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 637 km (251 430 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 14:31 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 14 days until Moon's next descending node later on 22 March 2048 at 14:49 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 7 March 2048 at 13:15 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-24.235° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠24.093° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 March 2048 at 12:10 in ♊ Gemini.

New draconic month

At 14:31 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 14 March 2048 at 14:28 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