Waxing
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase on 24 February 2042 Monday is Waxing Crescent, 5 days young Moon is in Taurus.
Share this page: twitter facebook linkedinWaxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 20 February 2042 at 07:39.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1955" and ∠1938".
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2042 after 10 days on 6 March 2042 at 20:10.
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 521 of Meeus index or 1474 from Brown series.
Length of current 521 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 44 minutes. It is 48 minutes longer than next lunation 522 length.
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 9 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠344.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠359.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
3 days after point of perigee on 21 February 2042 at 05:54 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 March 2042 at 05:04 in ♎ Libra.
Moon is 366 669 km (227 838 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 261 km (252 439 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 02:02 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 10 March 2042 at 07:08 in ♎ Libra.
At 02:02 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
8 days after previous South standstill on 16 February 2042 at 09:22 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.949°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.031° in the next northern standstill on 28 February 2042 at 23:35 in ♊ Gemini.
After 10 days on 6 March 2042 at 20:10 in ♍ Virgo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.