Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 28% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 28% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 21 January 2042 at 20:42.
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 ∠10° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2042 after 9 days on 5 February 2042 at 01:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 28 January 2042 at 12:48
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 5 February 2042 at 01:58
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 13 February 2042 at 07:16
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 February 2042 at 07:39
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 520 / 1473
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 520 of Meeus index or 1473 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 57 minutes. It is 1 hour and 13 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 47 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 22 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠326°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠326°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠344.2°.
Moon after perigee
2 days after point of perigee on 23 January 2042 at 22:31 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 8 February 2042 at 21:14 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 363 860 km
The Moon is 363 860 km (226 092 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 668 km (252 070 mi).
Moon before ascending node
11 days after descending node on 15 January 2042 at 03:00 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 27 January 2042 at 23:09 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 19 January 2042 at 23:38 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.777°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.833° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 February 2042 at 18:31 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 5 February 2042 at 01:58 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.
