Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase on 24 February 2063 Saturday 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 13% 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 20 February 2063 at 03:07.
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 8.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1938".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2063 after 18 days on 14 March 2063 at 16:14.
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 780 of Meeus index or 1733 from Brown series.
Length of current 780 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 15 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. It is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than next lunation 781 length.
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 31 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 32 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠179.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠204.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
11 days after point of perigee on 12 February 2063 at 19:32 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 25 February 2063 at 16:30 in ♒ Aquarius.
Moon is 404 346 km (251 249 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 312 km (252 471 mi).
10 days after its descending node on 14 February 2063 at 11:10 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 28 February 2063 at 14:15 in ♓ Pisces.
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
2 days after previous South standstill on 22 February 2063 at 05:09 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.506°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.509° in the next northern standstill on 8 March 2063 at 17:58 in ♊ Gemini.
After 3 days on 28 February 2063 at 07:38 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.