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 22% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 ∠19° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 1 June 2089 at 12:49.

Strawberry Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2089 after 18 days on 23 June 2089 at 00:07.

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 ∠1848"

Lunar disc appears visually 2.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1848" and ∠1891".

Lunation 1105 / 2058

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1105 of Meeus index or 2058 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.36 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 41 minutes and it is 1 hour and 38 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 4 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠310.1°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠310.1° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠331.7°.

Moon before perigee

6 days since point of apogee on 29 May 2089 at 11:27 in ♒ Aquarius the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 10 June 2089 at 11:59 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 387 962 km

The Moon is 387 962 km (241 068 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 317 km (224 512 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 08:00 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 12 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 16 June 2089 at 22:07 in ♎ Libra.

Moon before northern standstill

9 days since the last southern standstill on 26 May 2089 at 04:25 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.583° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.600° at the point of next northern standstill on 9 June 2089 at 06:40 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

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

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 8 June 2089 at 18:44 in ♊ Gemini 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