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
Length of current 682 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 22 minutes. It is 2 hours and 6 minutes longer than next lunation 683 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 38 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 25 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠170.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠170.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠194.9°. 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
11 days after point of perigee on 13 March 2055 at 06:25 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 26 March 2055 at 15:17 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 402 889 km
Moon is 402 889 km (250 344 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 485 km (252 578 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 03:28 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 7 April 2055 at 10:16 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the middle to the last part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
3 days after previous South standstill on 20 March 2055 at 22:19 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.832°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.958° in the next northern standstill on 4 April 2055 at 16:13 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 28 March 2055 at 07:01 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.