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 19% 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.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 28 May 2092 at 03:46.

Strawberry Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2092 after 19 days on 19 June 2092 at 16:56.

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 ∠1796"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1796" and ∠1892".

Lunation 1142 / 2095

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1142 of Meeus index or 2095 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.65 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 39 minutes and it is 46 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 longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠167.3°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠167.3° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠190.3°.

Moon before apogee

10 days since point of perigee on 21 May 2092 at 11:11 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 3 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 June 2092 at 01:49 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 399 073 km

The Moon is 399 073 km (247 972 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 3 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 601 km (252 650 mi).

Moon after descending node

4 days after descending node on 26 May 2092 at 13:44 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 10 June 2092 at 04:20 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 23 May 2092 at 22:16 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.010° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.088° at the point of next northern standstill on 7 June 2092 at 05:48 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

17 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 5 June 2092 at 05:17 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