Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 20% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 20% 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 10 January 2062 at 17:52.
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 ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1854"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2062 after 9 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 18 January 2062 at 12:51
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 January 2062 at 03:37
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 1 February 2062 at 07:43
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 February 2062 at 12:11
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 767 / 1720
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 767 of Meeus index or 1720 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.76 days
Length of current 767 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 15 minutes longer than next lunation 768 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠201.9°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠201.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠232.2°. 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 after apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 8 January 2062 at 09:05 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 23 January 2062 at 20:23 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 386 704 km
Moon is 386 704 km (240 287 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 8 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 359 491 km (223 377 mi).
Moon before ascending node
13 days after its descending node on 2 January 2062 at 00:30 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 January 2062 at 15:36 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
25 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days after previous South standstill on 9 January 2062 at 02:13 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.405°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.481° in the next northern standstill on 22 January 2062 at 20:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 25 January 2062 at 03:37 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.