Waning Crescent on

Moon phase on 27 March 2025 Thursday is Waning Crescent, 27 days old Moon is in Pisces.

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Waning Crescent phase
Waning Crescent phase
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

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 22 March 2025 at 11:30.

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 ∠10° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1936"

Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1936" and ∠1922".

Pink Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2025 after 16 days on 13 April 2025 at 00:22.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 311 / 1264

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 311 of Meeus index or 1264 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.43 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 13 minutes. It is 1 hour and 40 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 2 hours and 31 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 38 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠329.3°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠329.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠346.9°.

Moon before apogee

9 days after point of apogee on 17 March 2025 at 16:37 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 30 March 2025 at 05:26 in ♈ Aries.

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Distance to Moon 370 184 km

The Moon is 370 184 km (230 022 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 127 km (222 530 mi).

Moon before ascending node

12 days after descending node on 14 March 2025 at 13:45 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 28 March 2025 at 16:29 in ♓ Pisces.

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Draconic month

26 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the previous standstill on 22 March 2025 at 06:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.719°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.696° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 April 2025 at 22:15 in ♊ Gemini.

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Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day on 29 March 2025 at 10:58 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.

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