Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 6% illuminated
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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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 31 March 2016 at 15:17.
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 passing about ∠18° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1953"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1953" and ∠1917".
Pink Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2016 after 16 days on 22 April 2016 at 05:24.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 7 April 2016 at 11:24
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 14 April 2016 at 03:59
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 22 April 2016 at 05:24
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 30 April 2016 at 03:29
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 200 / 1153
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.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠339.5°
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°.
Moon before apogee
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.
Distance to Moon 367 012 km
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 in descending node
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.
Draconic month
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.
Moon after southern standstill
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.
Syzygy in 1 day
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.
