Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Pisces

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 8% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 26 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.

4 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 17 April 2009 at 13:36.

Flower Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2009 after 16 days on 9 May 2009 at 04:01.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1847"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1847" and ∠1908".

Lunation 114 / 1067

The Moon is 26 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 114 of Meeus index or 1067 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 17 minutes and it is 2 hours and 29 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 27 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 42 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠282.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠282.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠311.7°.

Moon before perigee

6 days since point of apogee on 16 April 2009 at 09:15 in ♑ Capricorn 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 28 April 2009 at 06:26 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 388 054 km

The Moon is 388 054 km (241 126 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 366 042 km (227 448 mi).

Moon after ascending node

4 days after ascending node on 18 April 2009 at 05:19 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 1 May 2009 at 07:50 in ♌ Leo.

Moon before northern standstill

7 days since the last southern standstill on 14 April 2009 at 13:02 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.665° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.567° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 April 2009 at 08:50 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

4 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 25 April 2009 at 03:23 in ♉ Taurus 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov