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Quarter* ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 44% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 44% and growing larger. The 7 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
Moon phases for next 7 days
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Moon phase and lunation details
6 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 6 days on 20 March 2034 at 10:14.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1934"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1934" and ∠1923".
Pink Moon after 8 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2034 after 8 days on 3 April 2034 at 19:19.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 27 March 2034 at 01:18
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 3 April 2034 at 19:19
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 11 April 2034 at 22:45
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 18 April 2034 at 19:26
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 423 / 1376
The Moon is 7 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 423 of Meeus index or 1376 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 24 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 3 hours and 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠337.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠337.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠353.9°.
Moon after perigee
4 days after point of perigee on 21 March 2034 at 18:12 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 6 April 2034 at 03:44 in ♏ Scorpio.
Distance to Moon 370 670 km
The Moon is 370 670 km (230 324 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 054 km (252 310 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 20 March 2034 at 15:22 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 April 2034 at 21:12 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon at northern standstill
At 12:34 the Moon is meeting its standstill point to reach North declination of ∠18.139°. This is the year's northernmost lunar standstill of 2034. Over the next 14 days the lunar orbit is going to extend southward to face maximum declination of ∠-18.168° at the point of next standstill in ♐ Sagittarius on 10 April 2034 at 02:35.
Syzygy in 8 days
In 8 days on 3 April 2034 at 19:19 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.
