Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 15% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 15% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 30 April 2035 at 16:54.
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 leaving the last ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♈ Aries later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1885"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1885" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2035 after 17 days on 22 May 2035 at 04:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 7 May 2035 at 20:04
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 14 May 2035 at 10:28
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 22 May 2035 at 04:26
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 May 2035 at 07:31
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 436 / 1389
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 436 of Meeus index or 1389 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.38 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 6 minutes. It is 1 hour and 49 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 3 hours and 38 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 31 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠318.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠318.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠338.4°.
Moon before apogee
7 days after point of apogee on 26 April 2035 at 22:33 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 4 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 9 May 2035 at 03:09 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 380 253 km
The Moon is 380 253 km (236 278 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 4 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 359 785 km (223 560 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 3 May 2035 at 06:54 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 11 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 May 2035 at 19:31 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
15 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 27 April 2035 at 17:20 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.609°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.691° at the point of next northern standstill on 10 May 2035 at 23:59 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 7 May 2035 at 20:04 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.
