Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
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 ♈ Aries.
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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 21 May 2052 at 18:15.
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 ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1942"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1942" and ∠1894".
Strawberry Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2052 after 18 days on 12 June 2052 at 10:27.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 28 May 2052 at 10:50
- First Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 4 June 2052 at 06:49
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 12 June 2052 at 10:27
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 20 June 2052 at 03:10
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 647 / 1600
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.
Synodic month length 29.31 days
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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠352.1°
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°.
Moon before apogee
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.
Distance to Moon 369 138 km
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 in descending node
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.
Draconic month
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.
Moon before northern standstill
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.
Syzygy in 3 days
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.
