Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 6% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 10 January 2005 at 12:03.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1958"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1958" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2005 after 12 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 8 February 2005 at 22:28
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 62 / 1015
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 62 of Meeus index or 1015 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 62 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 25 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2005. It is 17 minutes shorter than next lunation 63 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 19 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 50 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠1.4°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠1.4°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠17.1°. 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 after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 10 January 2005 at 10:07 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 23 January 2005 at 18:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 366 155 km
Moon is 366 155 km (227 518 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 444 km (252 553 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 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 4 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
22 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 9 January 2005 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.938°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.973° in the next northern standstill on 22 January 2005 at 19:22 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
After 12 days on 25 January 2005 at 10:32 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.