Waning
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 26% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 26% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
2 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 2 days on 30 April 2081 at 21:24.
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 ∠12° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1769"
Lunar disc appears visually 7.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1769" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2081 after 19 days on 22 May 2081 at 20:26.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 8 May 2081 at 22:09
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 15 May 2081 at 23:21
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 22 May 2081 at 20:26
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 May 2081 at 15:35
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 1005 / 1958
The Moon is 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1005 of Meeus index or 1958 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.58 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 54 minutes. It is 3 hours and 1 minute 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 1 hour and 10 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 53 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠231.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠231.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠265.8°.
Moon after apogee
1 day after point of apogee on 2 May 2081 at 14:12 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 17 May 2081 at 14:15 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 405 208 km
The Moon is 405 208 km (251 785 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 266 km (229 451 mi).
Moon before ascending node
12 days after descending node on 20 April 2081 at 16:02 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 4 May 2081 at 10:34 in ♓ Pisces.
Draconic month
26 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
6 days since the previous standstill on 27 April 2081 at 11:19 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.521°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.437° at the point of next northern standstill on 11 May 2081 at 21:38 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 5 days
In 5 days on 8 May 2081 at 22:09 in ♉ Taurus 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.
