Waning
Crescent ♐ Sagittarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 30% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 30% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 21 January 2063 at 12:05.
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 leaving the last ∠3° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♐ Sagittarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1838"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1838" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2063 after 20 days on 13 February 2063 at 05:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 January 2063 at 12:23
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 6 February 2063 at 13:37
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 13 February 2063 at 05:48
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 20 February 2063 at 03:07
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 779 / 1732
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 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
8 days after point of perigee on 15 January 2063 at 06:21 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 January 2063 at 13:00 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 389 882 km
The Moon is 389 882 km (242 261 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 600 km (252 650 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 18 January 2063 at 01:44 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 1 February 2063 at 08:33 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
18 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 before southern standstill
10 days since the previous standstill on 13 January 2063 at 00:22 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.364°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.406° at the point of next southern standstill on 25 January 2063 at 23:21 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 29 January 2063 at 12:23 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
