Waning
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 7% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 17 July 2006 at 19:13.
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 ♊ Gemini
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♋ Cancer later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1855"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1855" and ∠1889".
Sturgeon Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2006 after 17 days on 9 August 2006 at 10:54.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 July 2006 at 04:31
- First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 August 2006 at 08:46
- Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 August 2006 at 10:54
- Last Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 16 August 2006 at 01:51
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.
Lunation 80 / 1033
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 80 of Meeus index or 1033 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 80 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter than next lunation 81 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠97.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠97.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠131.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
8 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2006 at 17:35 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 29 July 2006 at 13:02 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 386 453 km
Moon is 386 453 km (240 131 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 7 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 405 km (251 907 mi).
Moon after ascending node
6 days after its ascending node on 15 July 2006 at 20:25 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 7 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2006 at 16:58 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
6 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon in northern standstill
At 14:34 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠28.515°. Next 14 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-28.594° in its southern standstill point on 6 August 2006 at 04:11 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 2 days
After 2 days on 25 July 2006 at 04:31 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.