Waxing
Crescent* ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 33% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 33% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 30 December 2024 at 22:27.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2025 after 8 days on 13 January 2025 at 22:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 6 January 2025 at 23:56
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 13 January 2025 at 22:27
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 21 January 2025 at 20:31
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 January 2025 at 12:36
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 309 / 1262
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 309 of Meeus index or 1262 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠272.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠272.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠305.9°.
Moon before apogee
12 days after point of apogee on 24 December 2024 at 07:25 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 January 2025 at 23:34 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 365 148 km
The Moon is 365 148 km (226 892 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 173 km (230 015 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 19:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 19 January 2025 at 01:48 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 19:46 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 30 December 2024 at 05:06 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.428°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.464° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 January 2025 at 04:30 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 13 January 2025 at 22:27 in ♋ Cancer 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.
