Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 36% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 36% 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 1 May 2005 at 06:24.
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 in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1961"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1961" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2005 after 21 days on 23 May 2005 at 20:18.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 May 2005 at 08:45
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 16 May 2005 at 08:56
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 May 2005 at 20:18
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 May 2005 at 11:47
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 65 / 1018
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 65 of Meeus index or 1018 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
Length of current 65 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 13 minutes. It is 57 minutes shorter than next lunation 66 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 31 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 38 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠62.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠62.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠96.6°. 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 after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 29 April 2005 at 09:59 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 12 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 14 May 2005 at 13:41 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 365 476 km
Moon is 365 476 km (227 096 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 12 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 601 km (251 407 mi).
Moon before ascending node
8 days after its descending node on 23 April 2005 at 13:30 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 May 2005 at 10:56 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
23 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
3 days after previous South standstill on 28 April 2005 at 15:55 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.359°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.317° in the next northern standstill on 12 May 2005 at 00:42 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 8 May 2005 at 08:45 in ♉ Taurus, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.