Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 12% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 12% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 20 March 2055 at 03:18.
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 ∠23° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1924".
Pink Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2055 after 18 days on 11 April 2055 at 17:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 28 March 2055 at 07:01
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 5 April 2055 at 02:43
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 11 April 2055 at 17:58
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 18 April 2055 at 18:35
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 682 / 1635
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 682 of Meeus index or 1635 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.77 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 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 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠170.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠170.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠194.9°.
Moon before perigee
11 days after point of perigee on 13 March 2055 at 06:25 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 March 2055 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 402 889 km
The Moon is 402 889 km (250 344 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 485 km (252 578 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 03:28 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 13 days later on 7 April 2055 at 10:16 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
13 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is navigating from the middle to the last part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days since the previous standstill on 20 March 2055 at 22:19 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-19.832°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠19.958° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 April 2055 at 16:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 28 March 2055 at 07:01 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.
