Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 6% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 3 January 2005 at 17:46.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2005 after 16 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 10 January 2005 at 12:03
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 January 2005 at 06:58
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2005 at 10:32
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2005 at 07:27
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 61 / 1014
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 61 of Meeus index or 1014 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
Length of current 61 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. It is 9 minutes longer than next lunation 62 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 59 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠345.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠1.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of apogee on 27 December 2004 at 19:15 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 January 2005 at 10:07 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 365 376 km
Moon is 365 376 km (227 034 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 356 572 km (221 564 mi).
Moon after descending node
3 days after its descending node on 4 January 2005 at 21:52 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2005 at 07:32 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
18 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 26 December 2004 at 14:10 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠27.905°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-27.938° in the next southern standstill on 9 January 2005 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 10 January 2005 at 12:03 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.