Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 9% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and growing larger. The 3 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 18 February 2034 at 23:10.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1940".
Worm Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2034 after 11 days on 5 March 2034 at 02:10.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 25 February 2034 at 16:34
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 5 March 2034 at 02:10
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 13 March 2034 at 06:45
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 20 March 2034 at 10:14
Moderate tide
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.
Lunation 422 / 1375
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 422 of Meeus index or 1375 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 4 minutes. It is 1 hour and 53 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 40 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 29 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠317.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠317.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠337.6°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 15:30. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 9 February 2034 at 21:37 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next apogee on 9 March 2034 at 16:05 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 364 926 km
This perigee Moon is 364 926 km (226 755 mi) away from Earth. It is 2 418 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 5 430 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 05:47 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 6 March 2034 at 14:21 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
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.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 14 February 2034 at 10:08 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.256°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.195° at the point of next northern standstill on 27 February 2034 at 06:42 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 5 March 2034 at 02:10 in ♍ Virgo 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.
