Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 29% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 29% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 20 January 2034 at 10:02.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1968"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2034 after 8 days on 3 February 2034 at 10:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 January 2034 at 08:32
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 3 February 2034 at 10:05
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 11 February 2034 at 11:09
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 February 2034 at 23:10
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 421 / 1374
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 421 of Meeus index or 1374 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 minutes 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 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠289°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠289°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠317.3°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 21:19. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 13 January 2034 at 00:22 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 9 February 2034 at 21:37 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 369 926 km
This perigee Moon is 369 926 km (229 861 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2034. It is 7 418 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 430 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 00:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 7 February 2034 at 08:04 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 17 January 2034 at 23:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.413°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.344° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 January 2034 at 00:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 3 February 2034 at 10:05 in ♌ Leo 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.
