Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Pisces

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 24 January 2020 at 21:42.

Snow Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2020 after 11 days on 9 February 2020 at 07:33.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1948".

Lunation 248 / 1201

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 248 of Meeus index or 1201 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.74 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 50 minutes and it is 6 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 5 hours and 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠120.5°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠120.5° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠152.6°.

Moon before apogee

14 days since point of perigee on 13 January 2020 at 20:20 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 January 2020 at 21:28 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 404 947 km

The Moon is 404 947 km (251 622 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 390 km (251 898 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 22 January 2020 at 20:31 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 6 February 2020 at 08:59 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 23 January 2020 at 03:37 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.225° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.268° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 February 2020 at 16:10 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

18 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 9 February 2020 at 07:33 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov