Waning Crescent Moon
Waning Crescent MoonImage credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.(large image)

Waning Crescent in Pisces

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 4% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 27 days old.

Moonrise and moonset

The moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.

Moon phases on nearby dates

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Upcoming main moon phases

Main moon phases of the following lunar cycle.

Moon phase and lunation details

Moon in ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing about ∠10° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 16 March 2069 at 03:31.

Pink Moon after 16 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2069 after 16 days on 6 April 2069 at 16:13.

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.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1949"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1949" and ∠1926".

Lunation 855 / 1808

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 855 of Meeus index or 1808 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.41 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 56 minutes and it is 1 hour and 11 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decrease with the lunar orbit 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 details for

True anomaly ∠332.8°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠332.8° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠349.7°.

Moon before perigee

10 days since 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 2 days until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 23 March 2069 at 15:45 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 367 809 km

The Moon is 367 809 km (228 546 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 2 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 672 km (222 247 mi).

Moon before descending node

8 days after ascending node on 12 March 2069 at 17:45 in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 4 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 March 2069 at 18:54 in ♉ Taurus.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern 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 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠20.006° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2069 at 06:45 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

8 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♏ Scorpio the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 1 day

In 1 day 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.

Lunar calendar

Sources and credits

Parts of this Lunar Calendar are based on Planetary Ephemeris Data Courtesy of Fred Espenak, www.Astropixels.com

Moon phase image credit to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, svs.gsfc.nasa.gov