Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 27% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 27% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 19 January 2017 at 22:14.
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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2017 after 19 days on 11 February 2017 at 00:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 28 January 2017 at 00:07
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 4 February 2017 at 04:19
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 11 February 2017 at 00:33
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 18 February 2017 at 19:33
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 210 / 1163
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 210 of Meeus index or 1163 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 210 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 14 minutes. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes longer than next lunation 211 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 30 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 33 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠223.4°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠223.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠259.5°. 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 in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 00:14, this is 11 days after last perigee on 10 January 2017 at 06:07 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 6 February 2017 at 13:59 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 404 913 km
This apogee Moon is 404 913 km (251 601 mi) away from Earth. It is 495 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 796 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
7 days after its ascending node on 15 January 2017 at 10:45 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 January 2017 at 22:21 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days after previous North standstill on 11 January 2017 at 09:32 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.932°. Next 2 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.900° in the next southern standstill on 25 January 2017 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 28 January 2017 at 00:07 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.