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

Waning Crescent in Aquarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 7% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 10 March 2094 at 00:22.

Pink Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2094 after 17 days on 1 April 2094 at 00:11.

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 ∠1972"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1929".

Lunation 1164 / 2117

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1164 of Meeus index or 2117 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.42 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 1 minute and it is 8 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 43 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠7.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠7.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠24.6°.

Moon before perigee

14 days since point of apogee on 27 February 2094 at 15:03 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 March 2094 at 04:25 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 363 491 km

The Moon is 363 491 km (225 863 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 366 km (223 921 mi).

Moon after descending node

2 days after descending node on 11 March 2094 at 18:24 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 24 March 2094 at 14:44 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the last southern standstill on 11 March 2094 at 14:07 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.707° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.815° at the point of next northern standstill on 24 March 2094 at 12:07 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

16 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 16 March 2094 at 15:44 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