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
Length of current 186 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 34 minutes. It is 45 minutes longer than next lunation 187 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 ∠338.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠338.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠354.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 21 January 2015 at 20:06 in ♒ Aquarius. 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 6 February 2015 at 06:25 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 366 959 km
Moon is 366 959 km (228 018 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 155 km (252 373 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 10:23 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet ascending node on 8 February 2015 at 17:10 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
12 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 18 January 2015 at 06:17 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.577°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.513° in the next northern standstill on 31 January 2015 at 00:59 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 3 February 2015 at 23:09 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.