Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 27% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 27% and growing larger. The 5 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 3 January 2060 at 16:40.
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 passing about ∠21° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1970"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1970" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2060 after 9 days on 17 January 2060 at 17:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 10 January 2060 at 12:52
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 17 January 2060 at 17:14
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 25 January 2060 at 19:14
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 2 February 2060 at 05:22
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 742 / 1695
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 742 of Meeus index or 1695 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 7 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠297.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠297.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠323.8°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 01:42. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 26 December 2059 at 19:36 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 23 January 2060 at 16:37 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 368 882 km
This perigee Moon is 368 882 km (229 213 mi) away from Earth. It is 6 374 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 1 474 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 30 December 2059 at 07:45 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 January 2060 at 08:04 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 3 January 2060 at 06:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.156°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.171° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 January 2060 at 03:50 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 17 January 2060 at 17:14 in ♋ Cancer the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
