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

Waxing Crescent in Aquarius

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 21 January 2099 at 09:07.

Snow Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2099 after 13 days on 5 February 2099 at 12:48.

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 ∠1769"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1949".

Lunation 1225 / 2178

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1225 of Meeus index or 2178 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.79 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes and it is 17 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2099. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit 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 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠149°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠149° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.1°.

Moon before apogee

14 days since point of perigee on 8 January 2099 at 18:21 in ♌ Leo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 24 January 2099 at 12:47 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 405 290 km

The Moon is 405 290 km (251 836 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 101 km (252 339 mi).

Moon before ascending node

10 days after descending node on 12 January 2099 at 15:35 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 26 January 2099 at 21:58 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 18 January 2099 at 22:15 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.389° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.479° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 February 2099 at 10:56 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♈ Aries the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 5 February 2099 at 12:48 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.

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