Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 28% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 28% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 4 April 2021 at 10:02.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1881"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1881" and ∠1917".
Pink Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2021 after 20 days on 27 April 2021 at 03:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 12 April 2021 at 02:31
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 20 April 2021 at 06:59
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 27 April 2021 at 03:31
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 3 May 2021 at 19:50
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 262 / 1215
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 262 of Meeus index or 1215 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.67 days
Length of current 262 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 10 minutes. It is 19 minutes shorter than next lunation 263 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 26 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 37 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠124.3°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠124.3°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠154.8°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2021 at 06:12 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 14 April 2021 at 17:47 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 381 088 km
Moon is 381 088 km (236 797 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 8 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 120 km (252 351 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 2 April 2021 at 02:41 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 16 April 2021 at 05:53 in ♊ Gemini.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 4 April 2021 at 02:08 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.412°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.532° in the next northern standstill on 18 April 2021 at 16:02 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 12 April 2021 at 02:31 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.