Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 10% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% 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 2 May 2043 at 08:59.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1951"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.6% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1951" and ∠1902".
Flower Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2043 after 17 days on 23 May 2043 at 23:37.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2043 at 03:21
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 15 May 2043 at 21:05
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 May 2043 at 23:37
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 31 May 2043 at 19:25
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 535 / 1488
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 535 of Meeus index or 1488 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.34 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes. It is 1 hour and 1 minute 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 29 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠345.1°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠345.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠0.5°.
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of apogee on 25 April 2043 at 12:50 in ♏ Scorpio. 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 9 May 2043 at 02:32 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 367 311 km
The Moon is 367 311 km (228 236 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 136 km (221 914 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 11:10 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 12 days later on 19 May 2043 at 08:03 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 11:10 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
7 days since the previous standstill on 29 April 2043 at 03:33 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.582°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.531° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 May 2043 at 00:03 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 9 May 2043 at 03:21 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.
