Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 21% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 21% 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 29 March 2046 at 06:57.
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 passing about ∠18° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.6% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1920".
Pink Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2046 after 19 days on 20 April 2046 at 18:21.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 6 April 2046 at 11:52
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 14 April 2046 at 03:21
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 20 April 2046 at 18:21
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 April 2046 at 23:30
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 571 / 1524
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 571 of Meeus index or 1524 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.73 days
Length of current 571 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 36 minutes. It is 2 hours and 32 minutes longer than next lunation 572 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 52 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 11 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠184.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠184.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠209.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon before apogee
10 days after point of perigee on 21 March 2046 at 18:59 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 3 April 2046 at 12:45 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 402 901 km
Moon is 402 901 km (250 351 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 176 km (252 386 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 00:32 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 15 April 2046 at 07:10 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 00:32 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 28 March 2046 at 00:39 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.076°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.939° in the next northern standstill on 11 April 2046 at 17:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 6 April 2046 at 11:52 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.