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Moon ♑ Capricorn
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 4% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and getting smaller. The 27 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 28 December 2029 at 09:49.
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 ∠20° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2030 after 17 days on 19 January 2030 at 15:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 4 January 2030 at 02:49
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 11 January 2030 at 14:06
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 19 January 2030 at 15:54
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 26 January 2030 at 18:14
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 370 / 1323
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 370 of Meeus index or 1323 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.5 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 21 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠19.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠39.8°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 1 January 2030 at 15:33 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 13 January 2030 at 08:51 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 367 020 km
The Moon is 367 020 km (228 056 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 647 km (251 436 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 20:31 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 16 January 2030 at 22:41 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 20:31 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 08:17 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.575°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2030. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.549° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 16 January 2030 at 08:26.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 4 January 2030 at 02:49 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.
