Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 6% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
Moon phases for next 7 days
Friday Fri
Saturday Sat
Sunday Sun
Monday Mon
Tuesday Tue
Wednesday Wed
Thursday Thu
Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 8 January 2067 at 17:01.
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 ♐ Sagittarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♑ Capricorn later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1964"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1964" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2067 after 16 days on 30 January 2067 at 10:29.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 15 January 2067 at 11:17
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 22 January 2067 at 06:17
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 30 January 2067 at 10:29
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 7 February 2067 at 06:14
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 828 / 1781
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 828 of Meeus index or 1781 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 59 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2067. It is 19 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 45 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 24 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠346.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠346.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.4°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 1 January 2067 at 14:49 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 15 January 2067 at 07:56 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 365 054 km
The Moon is 365 054 km (226 834 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 756 km (221 678 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 18:46 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 26 January 2067 at 22:59 in ♊ Gemini.
New draconic month
At 18:46 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon at southern standstill
At 00:58 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-23.918°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2067. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠23.887° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 26 January 2067 at 00:50.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 15 January 2067 at 11:17 in ♑ Capricorn 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.
