Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 29% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 20 January 2034 at 10:02.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1968" and ∠1949".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2034 after 8 days on 3 February 2034 at 10:05.
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 421 of Meeus index or 1374 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours and 5 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 25 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 38 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠289°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠317.3°.
Moon is at perigee at 21:19. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 13 January 2034 at 00:22 in ♏ Scorpio. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 9 February 2034 at 21:37 in ♎ Libra.
This perigee Moon is 369 926 km (229 861 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's farthest perigee of 2034. It is 7 418 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 430 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 00:56 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 7 February 2034 at 08:04 in ♎ Libra.
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
7 days since the previous standstill on 17 January 2034 at 23:58 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.413°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.344° at the point of next northern standstill on 31 January 2034 at 00:32 in ♋ Cancer.
In 8 days on 3 February 2034 at 10:05 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.