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Moon ♑ Capricorn
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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 28 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1950".
Snow Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2045 after 16 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
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 556 / 1509
The Moon is 28 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
12 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 January 2045 at 22:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 404 434 km
The Moon is 404 434 km (251 304 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 609 km (252 655 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 6 January 2045 at 16:49 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 21 January 2045 at 00:16 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
22 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 after southern standstill
1 day since the previous standstill on 15 January 2045 at 09:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.098°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 13 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.156° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 January 2045 at 16:53 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day 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.
