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

Waxing Crescent in Gemini

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 24% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 5 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 is entering ♊ Gemini

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 20 March 2091 at 03:45.

Pink Moon after 9 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2091 after 9 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31.

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 ∠1800"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1800" and ∠1923".

Lunation 1128 / 2081

The Moon is 5 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1128 of Meeus index or 2081 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes and it is 1 hour and 47 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 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠165.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠165.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠189.5°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 21 March 2091 at 17:48 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 4 April 2091 at 03:26 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 398 191 km

The Moon is 398 191 km (247 424 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 356 783 km (221 695 mi).

Moon after descending node

6 days after descending node on 18 March 2091 at 15:30 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 1 April 2091 at 21:03 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

12 days since the last southern standstill on 13 March 2091 at 06:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.480° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.531° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2091 at 00:55 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 9 days

In 9 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31 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