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 is entering ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

2 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 20 March 2093 at 04:57.

Pink Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2093 after 20 days on 11 April 2093 at 16:35.

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 ∠1962"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1962" and ∠1925".

Lunation 1152 / 2105

The Moon is 24 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1152 of Meeus index or 2105 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.51 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes and it is 42 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 shorter than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 32 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 37 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠43.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠43.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠73.1°.

Moon after perigee

1 day since point of perigee on 21 March 2093 at 10:04 in ♑ Capricorn the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 3 April 2093 at 11:21 in ♋ Cancer.

Distance to Moon 365 248 km

The Moon is 365 248 km (226 955 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 205 km (251 161 mi).

Moon in descending node

Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 12:52 crossing the ecliptic from North to South. Lunar position remains south of if for the upcoming 13 days until Moon's next ascending node later on 5 April 2093 at 10:03 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

1 day since the last southern standstill on 20 March 2093 at 23:15 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.054° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.174° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 April 2093 at 16:04 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

13 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 27 March 2093 at 03:18 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