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

Waning Crescent in Aquarius

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 6% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 27 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 March 2064 at 00:33.

Pink Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2064 after 17 days on 1 April 2064 at 17:40.

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 ∠1779"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1929".

Lunation 793 / 1746

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 793 of Meeus index or 1746 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.78 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes and it is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2064. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠156.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠156.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠181.6°.

Moon before apogee

11 days since point of perigee on 3 March 2064 at 17:31 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 17 March 2064 at 21:10 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 402 839 km

The Moon is 402 839 km (250 313 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 581 km (252 638 mi).

Moon in ascending node

Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 05:39 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 29 March 2064 at 11:52 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 10 March 2064 at 08:07 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.823° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.727° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2064 at 03:21 in ♊ Gemini.

New draconic month

At 05:39 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 2 days

In 2 days on 18 March 2064 at 01:45 in ♓ Pisces the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth 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