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Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 2% and getting smaller. The 28 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 6 days on 26 August 2005 at 15:18.
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon is leaving the last ∠4° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♍ Virgo later.
Lunar disc appears visually 7.2% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1770" and ∠1902".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2005 after 15 days on 18 September 2005 at 02:01.
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.
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 69 of Meeus index or 1022 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 15 hours and 41 minutes. It is 1 minute shorter 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 57 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 6 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠181.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠205.9°.
1 day after point of apogee on 1 September 2005 at 02:35 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 14 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 16 September 2005 at 13:58 in ♒ Aquarius.
The Moon is 404 961 km (251 631 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 14 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 360 406 km (223 946 mi).
10 days after ascending node on 22 August 2005 at 23:05 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 6 September 2005 at 10:52 in ♎ Libra.
10 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
4 days since the previous standstill on 28 August 2005 at 23:42 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.476°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 9 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.556° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 September 2005 at 10:54 in ♑ Capricorn.
In 1 day on 3 September 2005 at 18:45 in ♍ Virgo 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.