Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 10% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 10% and getting smaller. The 26 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 29 March 2065 at 00:24.
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 ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1821"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1821" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 18 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2065 after 18 days on 20 April 2065 at 18:36.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 5 April 2065 at 19:01
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 13 April 2065 at 22:38
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 20 April 2065 at 18:36
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 27 April 2065 at 11:02
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 806 / 1759
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 806 of Meeus index or 1759 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.7 days
Length of current 806 lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 46 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2065. It is 17 minutes longer than next lunation 807 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 2 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 1 minute shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠129.8°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠129.8°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠159.2°. 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
9 days after point of perigee on 23 March 2065 at 16:36 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 8 April 2065 at 00:30 in ♉ Taurus.
Distance to Moon 393 565 km
Moon is 393 565 km (244 550 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 389 km (252 518 mi).
Moon after ascending node
2 days after its ascending node on 30 March 2065 at 22:27 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 14 April 2065 at 13:32 in ♋ Cancer.
Draconic month
2 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
5 days after previous South standstill on 27 March 2065 at 18:51 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-26.548°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠26.411° in the next northern standstill on 11 April 2065 at 06:32 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 5 April 2065 at 19:01 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.