Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 20% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 20% and getting smaller. The 25 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 3 days on 1 May 2100 at 05:01.
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 ∠21° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1786"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1786" and ∠1903".
Flower Moon after 19 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2100 after 19 days on 23 May 2100 at 17:25.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 9 May 2100 at 08:54
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 17 May 2100 at 02:42
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 23 May 2100 at 17:25
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 30 May 2100 at 19:35
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 1240 / 2193
The Moon is 25 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1240 of Meeus index or 2193 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.69 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 16 hours and 37 minutes. It is 1 hour and 59 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 3 hours and 53 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 10 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠176.6°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠176.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠200.1°.
Moon before perigee
10 days after point of perigee on 24 April 2100 at 02:13 in ♎ Libra. 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 7 May 2100 at 05:13 in ♈ Aries.
Distance to Moon 401 396 km
The Moon is 401 396 km (249 416 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 2 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 376 km (252 510 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 01:19 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 18 May 2100 at 10:11 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 01:19 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after southern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 28 April 2100 at 00:08 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.374°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 8 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.277° at the point of next northern standstill on 12 May 2100 at 13:36 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 4 days
In 4 days on 9 May 2100 at 08:54 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.
