Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 19% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 19% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 19 January 2053 at 23:12.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1877"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1877" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2053 after 9 days on 3 February 2053 at 04:57.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 27 January 2053 at 13:41
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 3 February 2053 at 04:57
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 10 February 2053 at 13:49
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 18 February 2053 at 16:31
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 656 / 1609
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 656 of Meeus index or 1609 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 656 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 19 minutes. It is 2 hours and 39 minutes longer than next lunation 657 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 35 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠217.6°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠217.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠251.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before perigee
8 days after point of apogee on 16 January 2053 at 07:55 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 February 2053 at 05:49 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 381 816 km
Moon is 381 816 km (237 249 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 7 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 362 186 km (225 052 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 11:46 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 6 February 2053 at 03:39 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days after previous South standstill on 17 January 2053 at 11:59 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.367°. Next 6 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.289° in the next northern standstill on 31 January 2053 at 05:58 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 3 February 2053 at 04:57 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.