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 16% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠5° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 6 February 2086 at 22:30.

Snow Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2086 after 18 days on 28 February 2086 at 12:21.

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 ∠1903"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1903" and ∠1944".

Lunation 1064 / 2017

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1064 of Meeus index or 2017 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.46 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes and it is 1 hour and 26 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠329.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠329.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347°.

Moon before perigee

8 days since point of apogee on 2 February 2086 at 04:51 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 February 2086 at 16:44 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 376 612 km

The Moon is 376 612 km (234 016 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 829 km (222 345 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 9 February 2086 at 10:38 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 21 February 2086 at 21:51 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 9 February 2086 at 06:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.132° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.034° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 February 2086 at 19:36 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 13 February 2086 at 22:27 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