Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 22% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and growing larger. The 5 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 7 April 2016 at 11:24.
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 ∠18° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1934"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1914".
Pink Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2016 after 10 days on 22 April 2016 at 05:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 14 April 2016 at 03:59
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 22 April 2016 at 05:24
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 30 April 2016 at 03:29
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 6 May 2016 at 19:30
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 201 / 1154
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 201 of Meeus index or 1154 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
Length of current 201 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 6 minutes. It is 36 minutes longer than next lunation 202 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 31 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠355.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠355.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠10.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 7 April 2016 at 17:36 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 April 2016 at 16:05 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 370 551 km
Moon is 370 551 km (230 250 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 352 km (252 495 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after its descending node on 5 April 2016 at 17:27 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 18 April 2016 at 18:04 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
19 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
11 days after previous South standstill on 30 March 2016 at 22:12 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-18.239°. Next day the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠18.288° in the next northern standstill on 12 April 2016 at 12:12 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 22 April 2016 at 05:24 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.