Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 3% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 30 December 2062 at 16:57.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 9.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2063 after 13 days on 14 January 2063 at 19:11.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 7 January 2063 at 22:16
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 14 January 2063 at 19:11
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 21 January 2063 at 12:05
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 January 2063 at 12:23
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 779 / 1732
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 779 of Meeus index or 1732 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.81 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2063. It is 11 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 21 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠154.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠154.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠179.8°.
Moon before perigee
6 days after point of perigee on 26 December 2062 at 08:56 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 2 January 2063 at 10:03 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 405 350 km
The Moon is 405 350 km (251 873 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 278 km (252 449 mi).
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 21 December 2062 at 21:32 in ♍ Virgo. 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 5 January 2063 at 05:33 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 29 December 2062 at 18:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.306°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.364° at the point of next northern standstill on 13 January 2063 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 14 January 2063 at 19:11 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.
