Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Sagittarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 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 ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 29 January 2065 at 07:38.

Snow Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2065 after 20 days on 20 February 2065 at 23:11.

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 ∠1950"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1950" and ∠1947".

Lunation 804 / 1757

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 804 of Meeus index or 1757 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.62 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠57.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠57.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.7°.

Moon after perigee

3 days since point of perigee on 27 January 2065 at 15:26 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 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 February 2065 at 18:57 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 367 562 km

The Moon is 367 562 km (228 392 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 706 km (251 473 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 22 January 2065 at 16:09 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 4 February 2065 at 14:31 in ♑ Capricorn.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 19 January 2065 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠26.834° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-26.842° at the point of next southern standstill on 1 February 2065 at 07:20 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 5 February 2065 at 10:02 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.

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