Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
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
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 February 2043 at 17:00
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 23 February 2043 at 21:58
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 4 March 2043 at 01:07
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 11 March 2043 at 09:09
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.
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.
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.
New draconic month
At 07:12 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
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.
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.
