Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 34% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 34% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 April 2055 at 18:35.
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 ∠20° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1785"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1785" and ∠1909".
Flower Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2055 after 20 days on 11 May 2055 at 02:31.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 26 April 2055 at 23:17
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 4 May 2055 at 11:10
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 11 May 2055 at 02:31
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 18 May 2055 at 11:30
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 683 / 1636
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 683 of Meeus index or 1636 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.68 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 16 minutes. It is 2 hours and 36 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 3 hours and 32 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 31 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠194.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠194.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠221.6°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 10 April 2055 at 17:08 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 23 April 2055 at 01:56 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 401 555 km
The Moon is 401 555 km (249 515 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 780 km (252 140 mi).
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 05:33 crossing the ecliptic from North to South to meet ascending node 14 days later on 4 May 2055 at 12:19 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 17 April 2055 at 06:08 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.056°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 11 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.193° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 May 2055 at 22:10 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 26 April 2055 at 23:17 in ♉ Taurus 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.
