Waxing
Crescent ♊ Gemini
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 ♉ Taurus.
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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 22 March 2012 at 14:37.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♉ Taurus
Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1923".
Pink Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2012 after 11 days on 6 April 2012 at 19:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 30 March 2012 at 19:41
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 April 2012 at 19:19
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 13 April 2012 at 10:50
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 21 April 2012 at 07:18
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 151 / 1104
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 151 of Meeus index or 1104 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 41 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2012. It is 12 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the 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 3 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠142.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠142.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠168.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 06:04. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 10 March 2012 at 10:02 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 7 April 2012 at 16:59 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 405 780 km
This apogee Moon is 405 780 km (252 140 mi) away from Earth. It is 372 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 929 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 13 March 2012 at 20:41 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 28 March 2012 at 00:19 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days since the previous standstill on 14 March 2012 at 14:09 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.032°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 2 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.890° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2012 at 23:40 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 6 April 2012 at 19:19 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.
