Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 15% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 15% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 26 December 2095 at 18:24.
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 ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1913"
Lunar disc appears visually 2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1913" and ∠1951".
Wolf Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Wolf Moon of January 2096 after 10 days on 9 January 2096 at 19:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Aries ♈ on 2 January 2096 at 23:02
- Full Moon in Cancer ♋ on 9 January 2096 at 19:20
- Last Quarter in Libra ♎ on 17 January 2096 at 12:50
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 25 January 2096 at 09:45
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 1187 / 2140
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1187 of Meeus index or 2140 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.64 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 20 minutes. It is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 27 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠255°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠255°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠291.7°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 20 December 2095 at 23:26 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 5 January 2096 at 18:18 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 374 631 km
The Moon is 374 631 km (232 785 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 290 km (228 845 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 24 December 2095 at 17:49 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 6 January 2096 at 23:04 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 27 December 2095 at 03:42 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.640°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.638° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 January 2096 at 02:58 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 9 January 2096 at 19:20 in ♋ Cancer 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.
