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Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 22 March 2025 at 11:30.
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 ∠25° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1922".
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2025 after 15 days on 13 April 2025 at 00:22.
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 28 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.
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°).
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.
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°.
10 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 day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 March 2025 at 05:26 in ♈ Aries.
The Moon is 366 860 km (227 956 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 127 km (222 530 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 16:29 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 10 April 2025 at 19:56 in ♍ Virgo.
At 16:29 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
6 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 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.696° at the point of next northern standstill on 3 April 2025 at 22:15 in ♊ Gemini.
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.