Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 31% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 31% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 20 January 2015 at 13:14.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2015 after 9 days on 3 February 2015 at 23:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 January 2015 at 04:48
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 3 February 2015 at 23:09
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 12 February 2015 at 03:50
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 February 2015 at 23:47
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.
Lunation 186 / 1139
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 186 of Meeus index or 1139 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 45 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 10 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 59 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠338.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠338.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠354.5°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 21 January 2015 at 20:06 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 February 2015 at 06:25 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 366 959 km
The Moon is 366 959 km (228 018 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 155 km (252 373 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 10:23 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 8 February 2015 at 17:10 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 18 January 2015 at 06:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.577°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.513° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 January 2015 at 00:59 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 3 February 2015 at 23:09 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.
