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

Waxing Crescent in Gemini

Waxing Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 44% and growing larger. Lunar cycle is 7 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

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

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♊ Gemini

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.

7 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 7 days on 18 March 2064 at 01:45.

Pink Moon after 7 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2064 after 7 days on 1 April 2064 at 17:40.

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 ∠1873"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1873" and ∠1923".

Lunation 794 / 1747

The Moon is 7 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 794 of Meeus index or 1747 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.72 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 24 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 33 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 30 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠181.6°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠181.6° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠206.1°.

Moon before perigee

7 days since point of apogee on 17 March 2064 at 21:10 in ♓ Pisces 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 1 April 2064 at 05:29 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 382 640 km

The Moon is 382 640 km (237 761 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 235 km (221 976 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 15 March 2064 at 05:39 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 March 2064 at 11:52 in ♌ Leo.

Moon at northern standstill

At 03:21 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠27.727°. Over the upcoming 12 days the lunar orbit is going to tilt southward to face maximum declination of ∠-27.645° at the point of next southern standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 6 April 2064 at 15:48.

Draconic month

10 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 7 days

In 7 days on 1 April 2064 at 17:40 in ♎ Libra 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