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

Waxing Crescent in Taurus

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 11% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 3 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 ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 10 March 2100 at 22:28.

Worm Moon after 11 days

Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2100 after 11 days on 26 March 2100 at 01:05.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1770"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1930".

Lunation 1239 / 2192

The Moon is 3 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1239 of Meeus index or 2192 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.74 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 48 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2100. 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 5 hours and 4 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 59 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠151.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠151.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠176.6°.

Moon after apogee

1 day since point of apogee on 13 March 2100 at 21:09 in ♈ Aries the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 26 March 2100 at 14:59 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 405 040 km

The Moon is 405 040 km (251 680 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 415 km (222 087 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 10 March 2100 at 16:27 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 24 March 2100 at 20:18 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon before northern standstill

10 days since the last southern standstill on 4 March 2100 at 09:17 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.575° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.566° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 March 2100 at 01:51 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

3 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 26 March 2100 at 01:05 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