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Moon ♑ Capricorn
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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 4% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% 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 7 January 2059 at 01:06.
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 ∠1° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1929"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1929" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2059 after 16 days on 28 January 2059 at 15:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 14 January 2059 at 03:57
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 20 January 2059 at 18:51
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 28 January 2059 at 15:11
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 5 February 2059 at 18:49
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 729 / 1682
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 729 of Meeus index or 1682 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.49 days
Length of current 729 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 45 minutes. It is 1 hour and 15 minutes longer than next lunation 730 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 59 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 10 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠321.5°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠321.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠341.1°. 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
9 days after point of apogee on 3 January 2059 at 02:24 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 15 January 2059 at 06:49 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 371 640 km
Moon is 371 640 km (230 926 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 945 km (223 038 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 10 January 2059 at 18:48 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 10 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 23 January 2059 at 08:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
16 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
13 days after previous North standstill on 29 December 2058 at 22:55 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.970°. Next day the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.989° in the next southern standstill on 13 January 2059 at 04:35 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 14 January 2059 at 03:57 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.