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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 1% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 April 2007 at 18:04.
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 ∠12° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1972"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1912".
Flower Moon after 15 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2007 after 15 days on 2 May 2007 at 10:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 April 2007 at 11:36
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2007 at 06:36
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 2 May 2007 at 10:09
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 10 May 2007 at 04:27
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 89 / 1042
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 89 of Meeus index or 1042 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.37 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 51 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠348.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠348.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠4°.
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of apogee on 3 April 2007 at 08:38 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 April 2007 at 05:55 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 363 470 km
The Moon is 363 470 km (225 850 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 138 km (221 915 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 14 April 2007 at 17:34 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 27 April 2007 at 15:27 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 8 April 2007 at 23:01 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.510°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.446° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2007 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 1 day
In 1 day on 17 April 2007 at 11:36 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.
