Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase on 31 January 2055 Sunday is Waxing Crescent, 3 days young Moon is in Pisces.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 27 January 2055 at 17:39.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 9.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1947".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2055 after 11 days on 11 February 2055 at 22:48.
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.
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 681 of Meeus index or 1634 from Brown series.
Length of current 681 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2055. It is 38 minutes longer than next lunation 682 length.
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 16 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 47 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠143.9°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠170.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 06:49, this is 15 days after last perigee on 15 January 2055 at 09:13 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 12 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 12 February 2055 at 17:59 in ♌ Leo.
This apogee Moon is 405 942 km (252 241 mi) away from Earth. It is 534 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 767 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
2 days after its descending node on 28 January 2055 at 16:32 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 February 2055 at 16:36 in ♌ Leo.
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
6 days after previous South standstill on 25 January 2055 at 10:36 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.724°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.711° in the next northern standstill on 8 February 2055 at 23:45 in ♋ Cancer.
After 11 days on 11 February 2055 at 22:48 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.