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

Waning Crescent in Aquarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 25% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 24 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

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

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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠17° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 3 April 2070 at 21:23.

Pink Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2070 after 18 days on 25 April 2070 at 09:31.

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 ∠1844"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1844" and ∠1917".

Lunation 868 / 1821

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 868 of Meeus index or 1821 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.44 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 38 minutes and it is 2 hours longer than the upcoming lunation's length. 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 6 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 3 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠312°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠312° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠333.5°.

Moon after apogee

5 days since point of apogee on 31 March 2070 at 17:01 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 12 April 2070 at 16:43 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 388 794 km

The Moon is 388 794 km (241 585 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 956 km (224 288 mi).

Moon before descending node

9 days after ascending node on 28 March 2070 at 06:44 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 11 April 2070 at 09:00 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 2 April 2070 at 03:16 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.755° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.748° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 April 2070 at 06:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

9 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♎ Libra the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 11 April 2070 at 02:30 in ♈ Aries 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