Waxing Crescent on

Moon phase on 13 February 2043 Friday is Waxing Crescent, 4 days young Moon is in Aries.

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Lunar calendar 2043 | February 2043

Waxing Crescent phase
Waxing Crescent phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waxing Crescent 16% illuminated

Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 16% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.

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Moon phase and lunation details

3 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 9 February 2043 at 21:07.

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 ∠12° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1962"

Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1943".

Snow Moon after 10 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2043 after 10 days on 23 February 2043 at 21:58.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 533 / 1486

The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 533 of Meeus index or 1486 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.5 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 2 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°).

Lunation length shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 42 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 27 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠303°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠303°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠327.1°.

Moon at perigee

Moon is at perigee at 17:40. It is 12 days after previous apogee on 1 February 2043 at 17:22 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 1 March 2043 at 13:38 in ♏ Scorpio.

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Distance to Moon 367 963 km

This perigee Moon is 367 963 km (228 642 mi) away from Earth. It is 5 455 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 393 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 07:12 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 26 February 2043 at 15:03 in ♎ Libra.

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New draconic month

At 07:12 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.

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Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the previous standstill on 6 February 2043 at 04:21 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.451°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.529° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2043 at 03:26 in ♋ Cancer.

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Syzygy in 10 days

In 10 days on 23 February 2043 at 21:58 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.

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