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 37% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠17° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 20 March 2055 at 03:18.

Pink Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2055 after 21 days on 11 April 2055 at 17:58.

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 ∠1825"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1825" and ∠1926".

Lunation 682 / 1635

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 682 of Meeus index or 1635 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.77 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes and it is 2 hours and 6 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠170.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠170.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.9°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 13 March 2055 at 06:25 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 March 2055 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 392 816 km

The Moon is 392 816 km (244 085 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 5 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 485 km (252 578 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 11 March 2055 at 03:26 in ♌ Leo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 2 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 March 2055 at 03:28 in ♒ Aquarius.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 20 March 2055 at 22:19 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.832° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 14 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.958° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 April 2055 at 16:13 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 28 March 2055 at 07:01 in ♈ Aries 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