Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Aquarius

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 2% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 1 day young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

1 day after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 30 January 2044 at 04:04.

Snow Moon after 12 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2044 after 12 days on 13 February 2044 at 06:42.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1833"

Lunar disc appears visually 6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1833" and ∠1947".

Lunation 545 / 1498

The Moon is 1 day young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 545 of Meeus index or 1498 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.67 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 8 minutes and it is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 24 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 39 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠235.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠235.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠272.5°.

Moon after apogee

6 days since point of apogee on 25 January 2044 at 09:32 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 February 2044 at 10:42 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 391 010 km

The Moon is 391 010 km (242 962 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 365 312 km (226 994 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 18 January 2044 at 19:49 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 2 February 2044 at 08:49 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 26 January 2044 at 18:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.503° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.576° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 February 2044 at 10:49 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

25 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 13 February 2044 at 06:42 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov