Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 35% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 35% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 15 January 2004 at 04:46.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1951".
Snow Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2004 after 20 days on 6 February 2004 at 08:47.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 21 January 2004 at 21:05
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 January 2004 at 06:03
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 6 February 2004 at 08:47
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 13 February 2004 at 13:40
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.
Lunation 49 / 1002
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 49 of Meeus index or 1002 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 51 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 47 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠15.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠15.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠33.9°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 3 January 2004 at 20:19 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 January 2004 at 19:25 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 365 044 km
The Moon is 365 044 km (226 828 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 768 km (225 414 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♏ Scorpio at 21:08 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 29 January 2004 at 22:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 6 January 2004 at 21:36 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠27.031°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠-27.072° at the point of next southern standstill on 20 January 2004 at 06:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 21 January 2004 at 21:05 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
