Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 9% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 9% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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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 16 March 2069 at 03:31.
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 ∠25° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1930"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1930" and ∠1926".
Pink Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2069 after 17 days on 6 April 2069 at 16:13.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 23 March 2069 at 01:13
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 29 March 2069 at 17:34
- Full Moon in Libra ♎ on 6 April 2069 at 16:13
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 14 April 2069 at 17:21
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 855 / 1808
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 855 of Meeus index or 1808 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.41 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes. It is 1 hour and 11 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 48 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 21 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠332.8°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠332.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.7°.
Moon before apogee
9 days after point of apogee on 10 March 2069 at 22:33 in ♎ Libra. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 3 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2069 at 15:45 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 371 411 km
The Moon is 371 411 km (230 784 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 3 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 672 km (222 247 mi).
Moon before descending node
7 days after ascending node on 12 March 2069 at 17:45 in ♏ Scorpio. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 5 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 25 March 2069 at 18:54 in ♉ Taurus.
Draconic month
7 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days since the previous standstill on 15 March 2069 at 15:52 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-20.085°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.006° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2069 at 06:45 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 23 March 2069 at 01:13 in ♈ Aries 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.
