Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 23% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 23% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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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 10 March 2045 at 12:50.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1930".
Pink Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2045 after 19 days on 1 April 2045 at 18:43.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 March 2045 at 17:15
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 March 2045 at 00:56
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 1 April 2045 at 18:43
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 9 April 2045 at 07:52
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 558 / 1511
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 558 of Meeus index or 1511 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 24 minutes. It is 3 hours and 12 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 40 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 23 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠207.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠207.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠238.6°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 18:23. It is 11 days after previous perigee on 1 March 2045 at 18:43 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 16 days, until point of next perigee on 29 March 2045 at 17:25 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 405 311 km
This apogee Moon is 405 311 km (251 849 mi) away from Earth. It is 97 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 398 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
10 days after descending node on 2 March 2045 at 13:33 in ♌ Leo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 16 March 2045 at 12:51 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
24 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 10 March 2045 at 22:47 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.164°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.089° at the point of next northern standstill on 25 March 2045 at 07:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 18 March 2045 at 17:15 in ♓ Pisces 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.
