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 19% and getting smaller. The lunar cycle is 25 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 is entering ♓ Pisces

Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.

3 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 9 April 2083 at 08:31.

Flower Moon after 19 days

Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2083 after 19 days on 2 May 2083 at 02:29.

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 ∠1854"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1854" and ∠1914".

Lunation 1029 / 1982

The Moon is 25 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1029 of Meeus index or 1982 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.68 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 13 minutes and it is 9 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2083. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increase with the lunar orbit true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).

Lunation length longer than mean

The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 29 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 34 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠126.4°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠126.4° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠156.3°.

Moon before apogee

8 days since point of perigee on 4 April 2083 at 03:43 in ♏ Scorpio the lunar orbit is getting widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 19 April 2083 at 13:44 in ♉ Taurus.

Distance to Moon 386 630 km

The Moon is 386 630 km (240 241 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 7 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 306 km (252 467 mi).

Moon after ascending node

1 day after ascending node on 11 April 2083 at 07:14 in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following 13 days until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 25 April 2083 at 22:02 in ♌ Leo.

Moon after southern standstill

5 days since the last southern standstill on 7 April 2083 at 11:24 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-27.208° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠27.084° at the point of next northern standstill on 21 April 2083 at 19:08 in ♊ Gemini.

Draconic month

1 day since the beginning of this draconic month in ♒ Aquarius the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 4 days

In 4 days on 17 April 2083 at 02:09 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