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 6 January 2065 at 19:15.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1852"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1852" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2065 after 13 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 14 January 2065 at 13:19
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 22 January 2065 at 09:53
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 29 January 2065 at 07:38
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 5 February 2065 at 10:02
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 804 / 1757
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 804 of Meeus index or 1757 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠57.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠57.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠92.7°.
Moon after perigee
5 days after point of perigee on 2 January 2065 at 20:34 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 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 January 2065 at 21:51 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 387 128 km
The Moon is 387 128 km (240 550 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 429 km (251 301 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 05:38 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 22 January 2065 at 16:09 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 05:38 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 5 January 2065 at 00:25 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.815°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.834° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 January 2065 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 13 days
In 13 days on 22 January 2065 at 09:53 in ♌ Leo 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.
