Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 5% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 8 February 2016 at 14:39.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1957"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1957" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon after 12 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2016 after 12 days on 22 February 2016 at 18:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 15 February 2016 at 07:46
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 22 February 2016 at 18:20
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 March 2016 at 23:11
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 March 2016 at 01:54
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 199 / 1152
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 199 of Meeus index or 1152 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes. It is 1 hour and 47 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠319.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠319.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠339.5°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 30 January 2016 at 09:10 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 11 February 2016 at 02:42 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 366 339 km
The Moon is 366 339 km (227 633 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 358 km (226 402 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 20:46 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 24 February 2016 at 06:10 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 5 February 2016 at 04:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.303°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.254° at the point of next northern standstill on 17 February 2016 at 23:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 12 days
In 12 days on 22 February 2016 at 18:20 in ♌ Leo 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.
