Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
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 ♈ Aries.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 21 May 2052 at 18:15.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1894".
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2052 after 18 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27.
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.
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 647 of Meeus index or 1600 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 29 minutes. It is 29 minutes 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠352.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠7.2°.
10 days after point of apogee on 13 May 2052 at 20:41 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 28 May 2052 at 00:39 in ♊ Gemini.
The Moon is 369 138 km (229 372 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 494 km (222 136 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♈ Aries at 19:07 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 6 June 2052 at 13:15 in ♎ Libra.
14 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
7 days since the previous standstill on 16 May 2052 at 13:00 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.443°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 5 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.475° at the point of next northern standstill on 29 May 2052 at 16:35 in ♊ Gemini.
In 3 days on 28 May 2052 at 10:50 in ♊ Gemini 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.