Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 31% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 31% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 18 March 2047 at 16:11.
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 passing about ∠22° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1875"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1875" and ∠1926".
Pink Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2047 after 20 days on 10 April 2047 at 10:35.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 26 March 2047 at 11:44
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 3 April 2047 at 15:11
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 10 April 2047 at 10:35
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 17 April 2047 at 03:30
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 583 / 1536
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 583 of Meeus index or 1536 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.72 days
Length of current 583 lunation is 29 days, 17 hours and 18 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2047. It is 22 minutes longer than next lunation 584 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 34 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 29 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠133°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠133°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠161.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon after perigee
7 days after point of perigee on 13 March 2047 at 05:32 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 March 2047 at 11:07 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 382 293 km
Moon is 382 293 km (237 546 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 463 km (252 564 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♑ Capricorn at 13:43 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 14 days to meet descending node on 4 April 2047 at 05:01 in ♋ Cancer.
New draconic month
At 13:43 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days after previous South standstill on 18 March 2047 at 02:57 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-25.782°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠25.632° in the next northern standstill on 1 April 2047 at 17:57 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
After 5 days on 26 March 2047 at 11:44 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.