Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 23% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 23% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 9 January 2056 at 23:13.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1951".
Snow Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2056 after 20 days on 1 February 2056 at 12:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 16 January 2056 at 22:10
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 24 January 2056 at 20:21
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 1 February 2056 at 12:36
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 8 February 2056 at 07:01
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 692 / 1645
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 692 of Meeus index or 1645 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
Length of current 692 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 55 minutes. It is 1 hour and 54 minutes shorter than next lunation 693 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 52 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠45.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠45.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠75.8°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 10 January 2056 at 16:48 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 24 January 2056 at 02:22 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 366 253 km
Moon is 366 253 km (227 579 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 486 km (251 336 mi).
Moon before descending node
8 days after its ascending node on 4 January 2056 at 07:42 in ♌ Leo, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 4 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 17 January 2056 at 06:04 in ♒ Aquarius.
Draconic month
8 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 2 January 2056 at 21:00 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠21.189°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-21.177° in the next southern standstill on 15 January 2056 at 19:49 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 16 January 2056 at 22:10 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.