Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 5% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 5% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 8 February 2035 at 08:22.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1879"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1879" and ∠1944".
Snow Moon after 11 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2035 after 11 days on 22 February 2035 at 08:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 15 February 2035 at 13:17
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 22 February 2035 at 08:54
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 2 March 2035 at 03:01
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 9 March 2035 at 23:09
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 434 / 1387
The Moon is 2 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 434 of Meeus index or 1387 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.62 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. It is 2 hours and 59 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠255.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠255.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠291.6°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 2 February 2035 at 12:48 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 February 2035 at 05:31 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 381 524 km
The Moon is 381 524 km (237 068 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 326 km (228 867 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 07:03 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 12 days later on 23 February 2035 at 04:20 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
14 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 after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 4 February 2035 at 16:35 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.448°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.402° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 February 2035 at 04:16 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 11 days
In 11 days on 22 February 2035 at 08:54 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.
