Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 31 March 2016 at 15:17.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1917".
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2016 after 16 days on 22 April 2016 at 05:24.
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.
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 200 of Meeus index or 1153 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 29 minutes. It is 1 hour and 23 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠339.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠355.6°.
10 days after point of apogee on 25 March 2016 at 14:16 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 7 April 2016 at 17:36 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 367 012 km (228 051 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 164 km (221 931 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 17:27 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 18 April 2016 at 18:04 in ♍ Virgo.
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
5 days since the previous standstill on 30 March 2016 at 22:12 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.239°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.288° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 April 2016 at 12:12 in ♋ Cancer.
In 1 day on 7 April 2016 at 11:24 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.