Waning
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 37% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 37% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♑ Capricorn.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 1 April 2081 at 03:35.
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 ♑ Capricorn
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♑ Capricorn tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♒ Aquarius later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1782"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1782" and ∠1919".
Pink Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2081 after 20 days on 23 April 2081 at 10:20.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aries ♈ on 9 April 2081 at 08:15
- First Quarter in Cancer ♋ on 16 April 2081 at 17:31
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 April 2081 at 10:20
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 30 April 2081 at 21:24
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 1004 / 1957
The Moon is 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1004 of Meeus index or 1957 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.71 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 58 minutes. It is 3 hours and 4 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 longer than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 4 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 49 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠202.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠202.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠231.2°.
Moon before perigee
9 days after point of perigee on 23 March 2081 at 16:38 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 2 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 4 April 2081 at 19:49 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 402 134 km
The Moon is 402 134 km (249 874 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 494 km (251 962 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after descending node on 24 March 2081 at 07:17 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 7 April 2081 at 05:10 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 31 March 2081 at 02:35 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.653°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 12 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.586° at the point of next northern standstill on 14 April 2081 at 16:08 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 6 days
In 6 days on 9 April 2081 at 08:15 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.
