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

Waning Crescent in Aries

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 12% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 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 ♈ Aries

Moon is passing about ∠11° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 7 May 2075 at 09:59.

Flower Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2075 after 18 days on 30 May 2075 at 02:38.

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 ∠1849"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1849" and ∠1899".

Lunation 931 / 1884

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 931 of Meeus index or 1884 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.6 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 27 minutes and it is 50 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 1 hour and 43 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 20 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠113.2°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠113.2° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠145.4°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 2 May 2075 at 16:21 in ♐ Sagittarius the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 18 May 2075 at 08:43 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 387 586 km

The Moon is 387 586 km (240 835 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 811 km (252 159 mi).

Moon after descending node

6 days after descending node on 5 May 2075 at 05:59 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 7 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 19 May 2075 at 06:26 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon after southern standstill

6 days since the last southern standstill on 4 May 2075 at 22:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-22.503° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠22.600° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 May 2075 at 23:38 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

19 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♋ Cancer the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 3 days

In 3 days on 14 May 2075 at 23:22 in ♉ Taurus 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