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

Waxing Crescent in Aquarius

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 1% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

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 ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 21 January 2061 at 15:16.

Snow Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2061 after 13 days on 4 February 2061 at 15:22.

Moderate tide

There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1861"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1949".

Lunation 755 / 1708

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 755 of Meeus index or 1708 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 15 minutes and it is 2 hours and 23 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 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 32 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠265.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠265.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠299.9°.

Moon after apogee

7 days since point of apogee on 15 January 2061 at 08:29 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 January 2061 at 14:53 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 385 067 km

The Moon is 385 067 km (239 270 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 564 km (229 636 mi).

Moon before ascending node

8 days after descending node on 13 January 2061 at 15:27 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 27 January 2061 at 14:07 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

3 days since the last southern standstill on 19 January 2061 at 10:36 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.037° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.115° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 February 2061 at 14:36 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

21 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 13 days

In 13 days on 4 February 2061 at 15:22 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon 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