Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 24% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 9 May 2026 at 21:10.
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 ∠23° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1884"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1884" and ∠1899".
Flower Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2026 after 18 days on 31 May 2026 at 08:45.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 16 May 2026 at 20:01
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 May 2026 at 11:11
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 31 May 2026 at 08:45
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 June 2026 at 10:00
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 325 / 1278
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 325 of Meeus index or 1278 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 9 minutes. It is 1 hour and 16 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 4 hours and 35 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 34 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠330.4°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠330.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.5°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 4 May 2026 at 22:30 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 5 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 May 2026 at 13:48 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 380 487 km
The Moon is 380 487 km (236 424 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 5 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 358 074 km (222 497 mi).
Moon after ascending node
1 day after ascending node on 11 May 2026 at 04:36 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 23 May 2026 at 15:26 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
1 day since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 5 May 2026 at 11:35 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.109°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.051° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 May 2026 at 19:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 16 May 2026 at 20:01 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.
