Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 5% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 27 January 2019 at 21:10.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1783"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1783" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2019 after 17 days on 19 February 2019 at 15:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 4 February 2019 at 21:04
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 12 February 2019 at 22:26
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 19 February 2019 at 15:53
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 26 February 2019 at 11:28
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 235 / 1188
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 235 of Meeus index or 1188 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.82 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 35 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2019. It is 35 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 51 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 12 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠149.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠149.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.6°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 21 January 2019 at 19:58 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 5 February 2019 at 09:26 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 401 950 km
The Moon is 401 950 km (249 760 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 556 km (252 622 mi).
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 20 January 2019 at 22:48 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 3 February 2019 at 06:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 00:48 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-21.547°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2019. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠21.590° at the point of next standstill in ♋ Cancer on 16 February 2019 at 09:56.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 4 February 2019 at 21:04 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
