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Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 1% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 1% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 3 March 2005 at 17:36.
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 ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1946"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.7% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1946" and ∠1932".
Worm Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Worm Moon of March 2005 after 16 days on 25 March 2005 at 20:58.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 10 March 2005 at 09:10
- First Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 17 March 2005 at 19:19
- Full Moon in Virgo ♍ on 25 March 2005 at 20:58
- Last Quarter in Capricorn ♑ on 2 April 2005 at 00:50
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 63 / 1016
The Moon is 28 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 63 of Meeus index or 1016 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.45 days
Length of current 63 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 42 minutes. It is 40 minutes shorter than next lunation 64 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 2 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 4 hours and 7 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠17.1°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠17.1°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠36.2°. 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 after perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 8 March 2005 at 03:42 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 19 March 2005 at 22:54 in ♋ Cancer.
Distance to Moon 368 280 km
Moon is 368 280 km (228 839 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 10 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 848 km (251 561 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days after its descending node on 28 February 2005 at 00:10 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 12 March 2005 at 17:37 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
24 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 5 March 2005 at 04:40 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.257°. Next 8 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.325° in the next northern standstill on 18 March 2005 at 08:25 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 1 day
After 1 day on 10 March 2005 at 09:10 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.