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 41% 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 is entering ♑ Capricorn

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 8 March 2056 at 15:31.

Worm Moon after 21 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2056 after 21 days on 31 March 2056 at 10:25.

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 ∠1921"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1921" and ∠1932".

Lunation 694 / 1647

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 694 of Meeus index or 1647 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.7 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 53 minutes and it is 5 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 4 hours and 9 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠113.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠113.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠147°.

Moon after perigee

5 days since point of perigee on 3 March 2056 at 19:44 in ♎ Libra 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 19 March 2056 at 13:34 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 373 094 km

The Moon is 373 094 km (231 830 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 082 km (252 328 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 28 February 2056 at 01:59 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 11 March 2056 at 17:34 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

11 days since the last northern standstill on 26 February 2056 at 15:50 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠21.253° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-21.325° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 March 2056 at 07:45 in ♑ Capricorn.

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 16 March 2056 at 06:52 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