Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 10% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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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 3 May 2011 at 06:51.
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 ∠22° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1846"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1846" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2011 after 10 days on 17 May 2011 at 11:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2011 at 20:33
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2011 at 11:09
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 May 2011 at 18:52
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 1 June 2011 at 21:03
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 140 / 1093
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 140 of Meeus index or 1093 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes. It is 2 hours and 21 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 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠216.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠216.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠248.4°.
Moon after apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 29 April 2011 at 18:02 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 15 May 2011 at 11:18 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 388 228 km
The Moon is 388 228 km (241 234 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 362 133 km (225 019 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♊ Gemini at 14:54 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 19 May 2011 at 09:03 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Draconic month
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 03:54 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠23.421°. Over the next 12 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-23.403° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 18 May 2011 at 23:26.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 17 May 2011 at 11:09 in ♏ Scorpio 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.
