Waning Crescent on

Moon phase on 30 January 2030 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 26 days old Moon is in Sagittarius.

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Lunar calendar 2030 | January 2030

Waning Crescent phase
Waning Crescent phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Crescent 12% illuminated

Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.

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Moon phase and lunation details

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 26 January 2030 at 18:14.

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 is entering ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1946"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1948".

Snow Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2030 after 18 days on 18 February 2030 at 06:20.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 371 / 1324

The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 371 of Meeus index or 1324 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.55 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 18 minutes. It is 1 hour and 9 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 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠39.8°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠39.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠67.6°.

Moon after perigee

1 day after point of perigee on 28 January 2030 at 16:03 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 10 February 2030 at 06:06 in ♉ Taurus.

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Distance to Moon 368 378 km

The Moon is 368 378 km (228 899 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 292 km (251 215 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 03:28 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 13 February 2030 at 04:07 in ♊ Gemini.

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New draconic month

At 03:28 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.

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Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the previous standstill on 29 January 2030 at 16:28 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.491°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.393° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 February 2030 at 17:24 in ♊ Gemini.

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Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 2 February 2030 at 16:07 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.

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