Waxing
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 3% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 3% and growing larger. The 2 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 1 day on 25 March 2066 at 22:13.
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 leaving the last ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1809"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1809" and ∠1922".
Pink Moon after 13 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2066 after 13 days on 10 April 2066 at 10:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 2 April 2066 at 23:09
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 10 April 2066 at 10:03
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 17 April 2066 at 02:23
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 24 April 2066 at 12:29
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 819 / 1772
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 819 of Meeus index or 1772 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 819 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 16 minutes. It is 53 minutes shorter than next lunation 820 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 32 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 31 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠96.6°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠96.6°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠132.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 16 March 2066 at 19:50 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 4 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 April 2066 at 02:53 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 396 275 km
Moon is 396 275 km (246 234 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 4 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 532 km (251 365 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after its ascending node on 19 March 2066 at 23:41 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 6 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 2 April 2066 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
7 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon before northern standstill
9 days after previous South standstill on 18 March 2066 at 04:52 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.141°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.009° in the next northern standstill on 31 March 2066 at 23:06 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 13 days
After 13 days on 10 April 2066 at 10:03 in ♎ Libra, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.