Waning
Crescent ♑ Capricorn
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 16% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 16% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♐ Sagittarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 19 January 2085 at 01:26.
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 passing about ∠17° of ♐ Sagittarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1940"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1940" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2085 after 18 days on 9 February 2085 at 18:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 25 January 2085 at 20:06
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 1 February 2085 at 14:36
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 9 February 2085 at 18:24
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 17 February 2085 at 14:47
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 1051 / 2004
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1051 of Meeus index or 2004 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 1 minute. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2085. It is 34 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 44 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 25 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠345.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.9°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 12 January 2085 at 05:03 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 25 January 2085 at 18:46 in ♑ Capricorn.
Distance to Moon 369 443 km
The Moon is 369 443 km (229 561 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 735 km (221 665 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 10 January 2085 at 01:55 in ♋ Cancer. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 January 2085 at 03:41 in ♑ Capricorn.
Draconic month
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at southern standstill
At 16:49 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach South declination of ∠-24.889°. This is the year's southernmost lunar standstill of 2085. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend northward to face maximum declination of ∠24.854° at the point of next standstill in ♊ Gemini on 4 February 2085 at 12:06.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 25 January 2085 at 20:06 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.
