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

Waxing Crescent in Aries

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 16% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 4 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 ♈ Aries

Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 9 February 2100 at 04:55.

Snow Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2100 after 11 days on 24 February 2100 at 14:51.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"

Lunar disc appears visually 9.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1943".

Lunation 1238 / 2191

The Moon is 4 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1238 of Meeus index or 2191 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 14 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 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 ∠119.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠119.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠151.4°.

Moon before apogee

15 days since point of perigee on 29 January 2100 at 05:53 in ♍ Virgo 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 14 February 2100 at 06:46 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 405 402 km

The Moon is 405 402 km (251 905 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 204 km (251 782 mi).

Moon after ascending node

2 days after ascending node on 11 February 2100 at 09:33 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 February 2100 at 09:12 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 5 February 2100 at 04:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.496° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.552° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2100 at 17:35 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

2 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♓ Pisces the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 11 days

In 11 days on 24 February 2100 at 14:51 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