Waxing
Crescent ♊ Gemini
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 ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 13 March 2021 at 10:21.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠24° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 8.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1927".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2021 after 10 days on 28 March 2021 at 18:48.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
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 262 of Meeus index or 1215 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 10 minutes. It is 19 minutes shorter 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠124.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠154.8°.
Moon is at apogee at 05:04. It is 15 days after previous perigee on 2 March 2021 at 05:19 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next perigee on 30 March 2021 at 06:12 in ♏ Scorpio.
This apogee Moon is 405 253 km (251 813 mi) away from Earth. It is 155 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 456 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
12 days after descending node on 6 March 2021 at 00:56 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 20 March 2021 at 03:31 in ♊ Gemini.
25 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
10 days since the previous standstill on 7 March 2021 at 20:45 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-25.161°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 3 days to face maximum declination of ∠25.307° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 March 2021 at 08:35 in ♋ Cancer.
In 10 days on 28 March 2021 at 18:48 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.