Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 33% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 33% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 2 April 2005 at 00:50.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is entering ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2005 after 20 days on 24 April 2005 at 10:06.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 8 April 2005 at 20:32
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2005 at 14:37
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 24 April 2005 at 10:06
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 1 May 2005 at 06:24
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.
Lunation 64 / 1017
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 64 of Meeus index or 1017 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.47 days
Length of current 64 lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes. It is 51 minutes shorter than next lunation 65 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 22 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 47 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠36.2°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠36.2°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠62.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before perigee
14 days after point of apogee on 19 March 2005 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next perigee on 4 April 2005 at 11:10 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 363 402 km
Moon is 363 402 km (225 808 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next day until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 368 492 km (228 970 mi).
Moon before ascending node
7 days after its descending node on 27 March 2005 at 05:15 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 9 April 2005 at 02:59 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 1 April 2005 at 10:19 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.372°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.381° in the next northern standstill on 14 April 2005 at 16:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 8 April 2005 at 20:32 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.