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 14% 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 ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 16 February 2096 at 10:39.

Worm Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2096 after 17 days on 9 March 2096 at 01:37.

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 ∠1840"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1840" and ∠1940".

Lunation 1188 / 2141

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1188 of Meeus index or 2141 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.53 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes and it is 2 hours and 18 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 minute shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 9 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠291.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠291.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠319.2°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 14 February 2096 at 17:34 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 February 2096 at 11:38 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 389 470 km

The Moon is 389 470 km (242 005 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 489 km (226 483 mi).

Moon after descending node

3 days after descending node on 17 February 2096 at 03:18 in ♐ Sagittarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 March 2096 at 02:31 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 19 February 2096 at 20:23 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.822° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.928° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 March 2096 at 15:30 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 23 February 2096 at 22:28 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