Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 14% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 14% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 5 May 2059 at 01:29.
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 is entering ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1963"
Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1963" and ∠1901".
Flower Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2059 after 18 days on 27 May 2059 at 08:04.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 11 May 2059 at 19:15
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 19 May 2059 at 10:22
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 27 May 2059 at 08:04
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 3 June 2059 at 06:20
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 733 / 1686
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 733 of Meeus index or 1686 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 47 minutes. It is 55 minutes shorter 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 2 hours and 58 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 12 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠30°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠30°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠53.2°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 06:41. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 22 April 2059 at 12:03 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 20 May 2059 at 06:41 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 366 831 km
This perigee Moon is 366 831 km (227 938 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 323 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 3 525 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 29 April 2059 at 07:01 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 12 May 2059 at 04:37 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 2 May 2059 at 11:32 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-26.654°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠26.665° at the point of next northern standstill on 15 May 2059 at 08:44 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 3 days
In 3 days on 11 May 2059 at 19:15 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.
