Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 25% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 25% 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 25 March 2022 at 05:37.
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 ∠6° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1951"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1923".
Pink Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2022 after 20 days on 16 April 2022 at 18:55.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 1 April 2022 at 06:24
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 9 April 2022 at 06:47
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 16 April 2022 at 18:55
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 23 April 2022 at 11:56
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 274 / 1227
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 274 of Meeus index or 1227 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.53 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 50 minutes. It is 1 hour and 14 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 6 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 6 hours and 57 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠56.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠56.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠89.8°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 23 March 2022 at 23:28 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 7 April 2022 at 19:11 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 367 435 km
The Moon is 367 435 km (228 314 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 404 438 km (251 306 mi).
Moon after descending node
5 days after descending node on 22 March 2022 at 08:12 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 April 2022 at 13:05 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
19 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 25 March 2022 at 11:58 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.787°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.880° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 April 2022 at 08:15 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 1 April 2022 at 06:24 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.
