Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 29% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 29% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 9 June 2015 at 15:42.
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 ∠15° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1890".
Buck Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2015 after 20 days on 2 July 2015 at 02:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 16 June 2015 at 14:05
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 24 June 2015 at 11:03
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 2 July 2015 at 02:20
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 8 July 2015 at 20:24
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 190 / 1143
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 190 of Meeus index or 1143 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 52 minutes. It is 1 hour and 27 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 52 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 17 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠48.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠48.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠78.1°.
Moon after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 10 June 2015 at 04:39 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 23 June 2015 at 17:01 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 364 807 km
The Moon is 364 807 km (226 681 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 12 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 134 km (251 117 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 10 June 2015 at 23:30 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 13 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 24 June 2015 at 17:23 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 3 June 2015 at 21:10 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.440°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.457° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 June 2015 at 19:47 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 16 June 2015 at 14:05 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.
