Waxing
Crescent ♊ Gemini
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 21% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 21% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 3 April 2011 at 14:32.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♊ Gemini
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1835"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1835" and ∠1916".
Pink Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2011 after 9 days on 18 April 2011 at 02:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 11 April 2011 at 12:05
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 18 April 2011 at 02:44
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 25 April 2011 at 02:47
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 3 May 2011 at 06:51
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.
Lunation 139 / 1092
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 139 of Meeus index or 1092 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 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 3 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠190.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠190.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠216.7°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 2 April 2011 at 09:00 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 April 2011 at 05:59 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 390 627 km
The Moon is 390 627 km (242 724 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 088 km (222 506 mi).
Moon before descending node
13 days after ascending node on 25 March 2011 at 21:09 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 9 April 2011 at 12:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the first to the middle part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 22:55 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.569°. Over the next 13 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.498° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 21 April 2011 at 13:40.
Syzygy in 9 days
In 9 days on 18 April 2011 at 02:44 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.
