Waxing Crescent Moon
Waxing Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waxing Crescent in Pisces

Waxing Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 5% and growing larger. The lunar cycle is 2 days young.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠19° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after New Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 2 days on 9 February 2100 at 04:55.

Snow Moon after 13 days

Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2100 after 13 days on 24 February 2100 at 14:51.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1780"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1780" and ∠1944".

Lunation 1238 / 2191

The Moon is 2 days young and navigating from the beginning to the first part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1238 of Meeus index or 2191 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.73 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 34 minutes and it is 14 minutes shorter than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 50 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠119.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠119.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠151.4°.

Moon before apogee

13 days since point of perigee on 29 January 2100 at 05:53 in ♍ Virgo the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 February 2100 at 06:46 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 402 617 km

The Moon is 402 617 km (250 175 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 204 km (251 782 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 09:33 crossing the ecliptic from South to North. Lunar position remains north of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next descending node later on 25 February 2100 at 09:12 in ♍ Virgo.

Moon after southern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 5 February 2100 at 04:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.496° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.552° at the point of next northern standstill on 19 February 2100 at 17:35 in ♊ Gemini.

New draconic month

At 09:33 in the point ot ascending node the Moon is completing the last draconic month and is entering a new one while the lunar orbit is crossing the ecliptic from South to North.

Syzygy in 13 days

In 13 days on 24 February 2100 at 14:51 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov