Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 6% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 January 2045 at 03:32.
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 ∠3° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1951".
Snow Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2045 after 17 days on 1 February 2045 at 21:05.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 18 January 2045 at 04:25
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 26 January 2045 at 05:09
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 February 2045 at 21:05
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 8 February 2045 at 19:03
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 556 / 1509
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 556 of Meeus index or 1509 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 32 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2045. It is 6 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 48 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 15 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠156.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠156.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠182.1°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 3 January 2045 at 19:25 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 January 2045 at 22:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 402 586 km
The Moon is 402 586 km (250 155 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 609 km (252 655 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 6 January 2045 at 16:49 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 January 2045 at 00:16 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
21 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 09:52 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-28.098°. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠28.156° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 29 January 2045 at 16:53.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 18 January 2045 at 04:25 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.
