Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 3% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 3 January 2043 at 06:08.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1810"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1810" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2043 after 15 days on 25 January 2043 at 06:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 January 2043 at 06:53
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2043 at 09:05
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2043 at 06:56
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 February 2043 at 04:14
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 531 / 1484
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 531 of Meeus index or 1484 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 24 minutes. It is 2 hours and 10 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 3 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠232°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠232°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠269.3°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 4 January 2043 at 19:56 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 19 January 2043 at 20:02 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 396 007 km
The Moon is 396 007 km (246 067 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 10 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 914 km (229 854 mi).
Moon after descending node
6 days after descending node on 3 January 2043 at 07:24 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 17 January 2043 at 04:57 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
19 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 at southern standstill
At 20:09 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.311°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2043. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.367° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 22 January 2043 at 21:28.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 11 January 2043 at 06:53 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.
