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

Waning Crescent in Sagittarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 26% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 21 January 2025 at 20:31.

Snow Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2025 after 19 days on 12 February 2025 at 13:53.

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 ∠1793"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1793" and ∠1949".

Lunation 309 / 1262

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 309 of Meeus index or 1262 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.59 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 9 minutes and it is 2 hours longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 details for

True anomaly ∠272.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠272.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠305.9°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 21 January 2025 at 04:55 in ♎ Libra the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 2 February 2025 at 02:43 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 399 867 km

The Moon is 399 867 km (248 466 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 367 457 km (228 327 mi).

Moon after descending node

5 days after descending node on 19 January 2025 at 01:48 in ♍ Virgo 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 1 February 2025 at 22:06 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon before southern standstill

12 days since the last northern standstill on 12 January 2025 at 04:30 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.464° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.534° at the point of next southern standstill on 26 January 2025 at 13:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 5 days

In 5 days on 29 January 2025 at 12:36 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.

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