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Moon* ♑ Capricorn
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 2% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 2% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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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 December 2021 at 02:24.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2022 after 16 days on 17 January 2022 at 23:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 January 2022 at 18:33
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 9 January 2022 at 18:11
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 January 2022 at 23:49
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 25 January 2022 at 13:41
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 271 / 1224
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 271 of Meeus index or 1224 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 271 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 50 minutes. It is 23 minutes shorter than next lunation 272 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 15 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠358.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠358.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠13.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in perigee
Moon is reaching point of perigee on this date at 23:00, this is 14 days after last apogee on 18 December 2021 at 02:16 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is starting to get wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next apogee on 14 January 2022 at 09:27 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 358 037 km
This perigee Moon is 358 037 km (222 474 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 471 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 12 319 km farther than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 31 December 2021 at 01:07 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2022 at 04:19 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
12 days after previous North standstill on 20 December 2021 at 04:32 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠26.306°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-26.304° in the next southern standstill on 2 January 2022 at 13:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 2 January 2022 at 18:33 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.