Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Aries

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 18% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♈ Aries

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♉ Taurus later.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 5 June 2037 at 22:49.

Strawberry Moon after 18 days

Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2037 after 18 days on 27 June 2037 at 15:20.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1794"

Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1794" and ∠1890".

Lunation 462 / 1415

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 462 of Meeus index or 1415 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.47 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 16 minutes and it is 1 hour and 54 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 1 hour and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠258.7°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠258.7° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠292.3°.

Moon after apogee

3 days since point of apogee on 6 June 2037 at 01:22 in ♓ Pisces the lunar orbit is getting narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 9 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 18 June 2037 at 16:37 in ♌ Leo.

Distance to Moon 399 615 km

The Moon is 399 615 km (248 309 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 9 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 368 923 km (229 238 mi).

Moon before ascending node

7 days after descending node on 2 June 2037 at 03:23 in ♑ Capricorn the Moon is positioned south of the ecliptic over the following 6 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from South to North in ascending node on 16 June 2037 at 07:41 in ♋ Cancer.

Moon before northern standstill

8 days since the last southern standstill on 31 May 2037 at 16:34 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-21.325° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠21.359° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 June 2037 at 01:37 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

20 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♌ Leo the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 13 June 2037 at 17:10 in ♊ Gemini 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov