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 ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 7 January 2029 at 13:26.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1886"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1886" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2029 after 17 days on 30 January 2029 at 06:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 14 January 2029 at 17:24
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 22 January 2029 at 19:23
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 30 January 2029 at 06:03
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 5 February 2029 at 21:52
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 358 / 1311
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 358 of Meeus index or 1311 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes. It is 1 hour and 49 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠63.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠63.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠99.9°.
Moon after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 5 January 2029 at 04:16 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 20 January 2029 at 18:08 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 380 087 km
The Moon is 380 087 km (236 175 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 884 km (251 583 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 31 December 2028 at 22:49 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 13 January 2029 at 21:21 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 00:15 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-25.199°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2029. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠25.172° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 January 2029 at 12:31.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 14 January 2029 at 17:24 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
