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Quarter* ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 39% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 39% and growing larger. The 6 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
7 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 21 January 2099 at 09:07.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♈ Aries
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1806"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1806" and ∠1948".
Snow Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2099 after 8 days on 5 February 2099 at 12:48.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 29 January 2099 at 14:38
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 5 February 2099 at 12:48
- Last Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 12 February 2099 at 05:08
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 February 2099 at 04:05
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 1225 / 2178
The Moon is 6 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1225 of Meeus index or 2178 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.79 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2099. It is 17 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 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 position on
True anomaly ∠149°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠149°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠175.1°.
Moon after apogee
3 days after point of apogee on 24 January 2099 at 12:47 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 6 February 2099 at 04:14 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 396 906 km
The Moon is 396 906 km (246 626 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 384 km (222 068 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 26 January 2099 at 21:58 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 8 February 2099 at 19:39 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days since the previous 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 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.479° at the point of next northern standstill on 2 February 2099 at 10:56 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 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.
