Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 13% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 13% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 25 April 2011 at 02:47.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1905".
Flower Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2011 after 17 days on 17 May 2011 at 11:09.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 3 May 2011 at 06:51
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 10 May 2011 at 20:33
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 17 May 2011 at 11:09
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 24 May 2011 at 18:52
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 139 / 1092
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 139 of Meeus index or 1092 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 18 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 29 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠190.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠190.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠216.7°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 18:02. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 17 April 2011 at 05:59 in ♎ Libra. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next perigee on 15 May 2011 at 11:18 in ♎ Libra.
Distance to Moon 406 043 km
This apogee Moon is 406 043 km (252 303 mi) away from Earth. It is 635 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 666 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 22 April 2011 at 01:05 in ♐ Sagittarius. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 7 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 May 2011 at 14:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♐ Sagittarius, 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 21 April 2011 at 13:40 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-23.498°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠23.421° at the point of next northern standstill on 6 May 2011 at 03:54 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 3 May 2011 at 06:51 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.
