Waning
Crescent ♉ Taurus
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 19% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 19% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 30 May 2005 at 11:47.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1895"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1895" and ∠1892".
Strawberry Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2005 after 19 days on 22 June 2005 at 04:14.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 6 June 2005 at 21:55
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 15 June 2005 at 01:22
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 22 June 2005 at 04:14
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 28 June 2005 at 18:23
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.
Lunation 66 / 1019
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 66 of Meeus index or 1019 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.55 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 10 minutes. It is 57 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 26 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 37 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠96.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠96.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠131.2°.
Moon after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 26 May 2005 at 10:43 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 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 11 June 2005 at 06:11 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 378 339 km
The Moon is 378 339 km (235 089 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 8 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 506 km (251 970 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 15:14 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 17 June 2005 at 03:59 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 15:14 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 25 May 2005 at 23:03 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.270°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.224° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 June 2005 at 07:36 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 6 June 2005 at 21:55 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.
