Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 22% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 9 April 2045 at 07:52.
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 ♒ Aquarius
Moon is leaving the last ∠3° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1775"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1775" and ∠1914".
Flower Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2045 after 18 days on 1 May 2045 at 05:52.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 17 April 2045 at 07:27
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 April 2045 at 07:12
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 1 May 2045 at 05:52
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 9 May 2045 at 02:51
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 559 / 1512
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 559 of Meeus index or 1512 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 12 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 1 hour and 28 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 35 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠238.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠238.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠274.3°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 10 April 2045 at 13:48 in ♑ Capricorn. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 12 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 24 April 2045 at 22:26 in ♌ Leo.
Distance to Moon 403 851 km
The Moon is 403 851 km (250 941 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 12 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 865 km (229 823 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 18:23 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 26 April 2045 at 01:40 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 18:23 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days since the previous standstill on 7 April 2045 at 06:59 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.012°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.903° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2045 at 12:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 17 April 2045 at 07:27 in ♈ Aries 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.
