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 33% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 ∠15° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 13 March 2099 at 19:00.

Pink Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2099 after 20 days on 5 April 2099 at 08:37.

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 ∠1811"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1811" and ∠1929".

Lunation 1226 / 2179

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1226 of Meeus index or 2179 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.78 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 58 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠175.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠175.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠199.5°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 6 March 2099 at 16:59 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 March 2099 at 19:55 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 395 719 km

The Moon is 395 719 km (245 888 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 404 km (252 528 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 8 March 2099 at 04:56 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 22 March 2099 at 06:44 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 14 March 2099 at 09:20 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.667° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.678° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 March 2099 at 02:47 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 6 days

In 6 days on 21 March 2099 at 22:46 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