Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 17% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 17% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 29 March 2008 at 21:47.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1863"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1863" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2008 after 17 days on 20 April 2008 at 10:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 6 April 2008 at 03:55
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 April 2008 at 18:32
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 20 April 2008 at 10:25
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 28 April 2008 at 14:12
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 101 / 1054
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 101 of Meeus index or 1054 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 41 minutes. It is 2 hours and 18 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 3 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠310.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠310.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠332.7°.
Moon before apogee
6 days after point of apogee on 26 March 2008 at 20:13 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 April 2008 at 19:28 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 384 673 km
The Moon is 384 673 km (239 025 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 361 083 km (224 367 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 15:18 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 15 April 2008 at 05:48 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 15:18 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 28 March 2008 at 16:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.898°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.812° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 April 2008 at 17:42 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 6 April 2008 at 03:55 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.
