Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 6% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 10 March 2064 at 00:33.
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 leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1779"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.1% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1779" and ∠1929".
Pink Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2064 after 17 days on 1 April 2064 at 17:40.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 18 March 2064 at 01:45
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 26 March 2064 at 01:13
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 1 April 2064 at 17:40
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 8 April 2064 at 14:25
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 793 / 1746
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 793 of Meeus index or 1746 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.78 days
Length of current 793 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2064. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 794 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠156.8°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠156.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠181.6°. 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 3 March 2064 at 17:31 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 17 March 2064 at 21:10 in ♓ Pisces.
Distance to Moon 402 839 km
Moon is 402 839 km (250 313 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 2 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 581 km (252 638 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♒ Aquarius at 05:39 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 29 March 2064 at 11:52 in ♌ Leo.
New draconic month
At 05:39 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 10 March 2064 at 08:07 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.823°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.727° in the next northern standstill on 25 March 2064 at 03:21 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 18 March 2064 at 01:45 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.