Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 15% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 15% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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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 1 January 2035 at 10:01.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠0° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2035 after 18 days on 23 January 2035 at 20:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 9 January 2035 at 15:03
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 January 2035 at 04:45
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 23 January 2035 at 20:16
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 31 January 2035 at 06:02
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 432 / 1385
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 432 of Meeus index or 1385 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes. It is 1 hour and 30 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 6 hours and 5 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 58 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠192.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠192.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠220.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 18:52. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 24 December 2034 at 10:34 in ♊ Gemini. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next perigee on 21 January 2035 at 18:05 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 405 976 km
This apogee Moon is 405 976 km (252 262 mi) away from Earth. It is 568 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 733 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon after ascending node
5 days after ascending node on 30 December 2034 at 13:10 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 14 January 2035 at 03:01 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before southern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 25 December 2034 at 08:20 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠18.552°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-18.547° at the point of next southern standstill on 8 January 2035 at 08:12 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 9 January 2035 at 15:03 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.
