Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase on 9 March 2008 Sunday is Waxing Crescent, 2 days young Moon is in Aries.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 4% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 7 March 2008 at 17:14.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1944" and ∠1932".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2008 after 12 days on 21 March 2008 at 18:40.
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.
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 101 of Meeus index or 1054 from Brown series.
Length of current 101 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than next lunation 102 length.
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 6 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠310.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠332.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
10 days after point of apogee on 28 February 2008 at 01:27 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 10 March 2008 at 21:39 in ♈ Aries.
Moon is 368 678 km (229 086 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 366 302 km (227 610 mi).
3 days after its ascending node on 6 March 2008 at 06:52 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 19 March 2008 at 02:53 in ♌ Leo.
3 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
8 days after previous South standstill on 1 March 2008 at 08:03 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.030°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.985° in the next northern standstill on 14 March 2008 at 11:33 in ♊ Gemini.
After 12 days on 21 March 2008 at 18:40 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.