Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Sagittarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♐ Sagittarius

Moon is passing about ∠21° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 17 January 2077 at 09:09.

Snow Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2077 after 17 days on 7 February 2077 at 23:08.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1894"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1894" and ∠1950".

Lunation 952 / 1905

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 952 of Meeus index or 1905 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.49 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 52 minutes and it is 1 hour and 31 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠319.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠319.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 13 January 2077 at 15:13 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2077 at 18:01 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 378 530 km

The Moon is 378 530 km (235 208 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 336 km (223 281 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♐ Sagittarius at 03:21 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 2 February 2077 at 17:16 in ♊ Gemini.

Moon before southern standstill

13 days since the last northern standstill on 8 January 2077 at 11:32 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠25.079° the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠-25.115° at the point of next southern standstill on 22 January 2077 at 20:40 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

14 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♊ Gemini the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 24 January 2077 at 12:45 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov