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

Waning Crescent in Pisces

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 34% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 23 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 is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 2 May 2089 at 19:31.

Flower Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2089 after 19 days on 24 May 2089 at 10:18.

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 ∠1786"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1902".

Lunation 1104 / 2057

The Moon is 23 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1104 of Meeus index or 2057 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 18 minutes and it is 2 hours and 37 minutes 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 1 hour and 26 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 43 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠280.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠280.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠310.1°.

Moon after apogee

2 days since point of apogee on 1 May 2089 at 17:52 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 May 2089 at 16:16 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 401 407 km

The Moon is 401 407 km (249 423 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 247 km (227 575 mi).

Moon before descending node

10 days after ascending node on 23 April 2089 at 14:43 in ♎ Libra the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 8 May 2089 at 01:13 in ♈ Aries.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 28 April 2089 at 19:54 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.489° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.534° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 May 2089 at 20:53 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

10 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 5 days

In 5 days on 10 May 2089 at 10:03 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