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

Waning Crescent in Aquarius

Waning Crescent on . The illuminated surface of the moon is 6% 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 ♒ Aquarius

Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♓ Pisces later.

5 days after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 12 March 2091 at 07:02.

Pink Moon after 17 days

Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2091 after 17 days on 4 April 2091 at 01:31.

Neap tide

There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1799"

Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1799" and ∠1928".

Lunation 1127 / 2080

The Moon is 27 days old and navigating from the second to the final part of the current synodic month. This is lunation 1127 of Meeus index or 2080 from Brown series.

Synodic month length 29.75 days

The length of this lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 7 minutes and it is 33 minutes longer than the upcoming lunation's length. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2091. 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 5 hours and 23 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 1 hour and 40 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit details for

True anomaly ∠137.9°

The true anomaly of the Moon orbit at the beginning of this lunation cycle is ∠137.9° and at the beginning of the next lunar synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠165.8°.

Moon before apogee

10 days since point of perigee on 6 March 2091 at 16:02 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 4 days until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 21 March 2091 at 17:48 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 398 373 km

The Moon is 398 373 km (247 538 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 4 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 436 km (252 548 mi).

Moon before descending node

12 days after ascending node on 5 March 2091 at 10:19 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is positioned north of the ecliptic over the following day until the lunar crosses the ecliptic again from North to South in descending node on 18 March 2091 at 15:30 in ♓ Pisces.

Moon after southern standstill

4 days since the last southern standstill on 13 March 2091 at 06:18 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-18.480° the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠18.531° at the point of next northern standstill on 28 March 2091 at 00:55 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

12 days since the beginning of this draconic month in ♍ Virgo the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the lunar cycle.

Syzygy in 2 days

In 2 days on 20 March 2091 at 03:45 in ♓ Pisces 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