Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 21% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 21% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 9 February 2064 at 12:55.
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.
Moon is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1857"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1857" and ∠1944".
Worm Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2064 after 19 days on 3 March 2064 at 08:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 17 February 2064 at 07:03
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 February 2064 at 11:23
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 3 March 2064 at 08:19
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 10 March 2064 at 00:33
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.
Lunation 792 / 1745
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 792 of Meeus index or 1745 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 26 minutes. It is 16 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 5 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠125.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠125.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.8°.
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of perigee on 4 February 2064 at 06:21 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 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 February 2064 at 18:41 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 386 030 km
The Moon is 386 030 km (239 868 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 266 km (252 442 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 3 February 2064 at 15:20 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 February 2064 at 23:59 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 02:10 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-27.877°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2064. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠27.859° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 February 2064 at 20:13.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 17 February 2064 at 07:03 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
