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

Waning Crescent in Pisces

Waning Crescent on . Illuminated surface of the Moon is 2% and getting smaller. Lunar cycle is 28 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 ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

6 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 10 March 2064 at 00:33.

Pink Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2064 after 16 days on 1 April 2064 at 17:40.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1772"

Lunar disc appears visually 8.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1772" and ∠1928".

Lunation 793 / 1746

The Moon is 28 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

12 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 day until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 17 March 2064 at 21:10 in ♓ Pisces.

Distance to Moon 404 587 km

The Moon is 404 587 km (251 399 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next day until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 581 km (252 638 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 15 March 2064 at 05:39 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 12 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 29 March 2064 at 11:52 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

6 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 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.727° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2064 at 03:21 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day 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