Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 8% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 8% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 21 April 2025 at 01:36.
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 is entering ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠3° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1959"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1959" and ∠1907".
Flower Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2025 after 17 days on 12 May 2025 at 16:56.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 April 2025 at 19:31
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 4 May 2025 at 13:52
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 12 May 2025 at 16:56
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 May 2025 at 11:59
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 312 / 1265
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 312 of Meeus index or 1265 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.36 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 33 minutes. It is 1 hour and 2 minutes longer 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 11 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 58 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠346.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠346.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.3°.
Moon before apogee
11 days after point of apogee on 13 April 2025 at 22:48 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 27 April 2025 at 16:15 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 365 876 km
The Moon is 365 876 km (227 345 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 119 km (221 903 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 02:23 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 7 May 2025 at 23:44 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 02:23 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 18 April 2025 at 13:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.630°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.573° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 May 2025 at 06:35 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 27 April 2025 at 19:31 in ♉ Taurus 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.
