Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
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Waning Crescent 7% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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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 27 March 2057 at 18:39.
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 ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing about ∠12° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1872"
Lunar disc appears visually 2.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1872" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2057 after 17 days on 19 April 2057 at 10:49.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 4 April 2057 at 01:31
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 12 April 2057 at 04:59
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 19 April 2057 at 10:49
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 26 April 2057 at 02:06
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 707 / 1660
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 707 of Meeus index or 1660 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.59 days
Length of current 707 lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 7 minutes. It is 54 minutes shorter than next lunation 708 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 1 hour and 23 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 40 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠80°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠80°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠117°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 24 March 2057 at 08:23 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 9 April 2057 at 05:48 in ♊ Gemini.
Distance to Moon 382 912 km
Moon is 382 912 km (237 930 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 996 km (251 653 mi).
Moon after descending node
4 days after its descending node on 27 March 2057 at 19:16 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 9 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 April 2057 at 19:48 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
17 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 28 March 2057 at 01:43 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-23.258°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠23.399° in the next northern standstill on 11 April 2057 at 06:46 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 4 April 2057 at 01:31 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.