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 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days 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 ∠19° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 12 January 2070 at 11:22.

Wolf Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2070 after 12 days on 26 January 2070 at 12:59.

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 ∠1861"

Lunar disc appears visually 4.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1861" and ∠1951".

Lunation 866 / 1819

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 866 of Meeus index or 1819 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 30 minutes and it is 2 hours and 30 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 2 hours and 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠244.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠244.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282°.

Moon after apogee

7 days since point of apogee on 7 January 2070 at 04:45 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 23 January 2070 at 04:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 385 152 km

The Moon is 385 152 km (239 322 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 854 km (227 953 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 5 January 2070 at 18:42 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 19 January 2070 at 18:41 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 10 January 2070 at 01:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.284° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.199° at the point of next northern standstill on 23 January 2070 at 11:28 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 26 January 2070 at 12:59 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