Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 13% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 13% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 7 February 2008 at 03:44.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1936"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1936" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2008 after 10 days on 21 February 2008 at 03:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 14 February 2008 at 03:34
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 21 February 2008 at 03:31
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 29 February 2008 at 02:18
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 7 March 2008 at 17:14
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 100 / 1053
The Moon is 3 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 100 of Meeus index or 1053 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.56 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 30 minutes. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the 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 46 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 17 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠280°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠280°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.8°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 31 January 2008 at 04:26 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 14 February 2008 at 01:07 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 370 321 km
The Moon is 370 321 km (230 107 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 370 216 km (230 042 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after ascending node on 7 February 2008 at 21:39 in ♒ Aquarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 20 February 2008 at 20:01 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
2 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 2 February 2008 at 23:33 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.025°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.043° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 February 2008 at 06:10 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 21 February 2008 at 03:31 in ♍ Virgo 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.
