Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 11% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 11% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♎ Libra.
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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 23 November 2005 at 22:11.
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 ♎ Libra
Moon is leaving the last ∠2° of ♎ Libra tropical zodiac sector and will enter ♏ Scorpio later.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1826"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.3% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1826" and ∠1945".
Cold Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2005 after 17 days on 15 December 2005 at 16:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 1 December 2005 at 15:01
- First Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 8 December 2005 at 09:36
- Full Moon in Gemini ♊ on 15 December 2005 at 16:16
- Last Quarter in Virgo ♍ on 23 December 2005 at 19:36
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 72 / 1025
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 72 of Meeus index or 1025 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.57 days
Length of current 72 lunation is 29 days, 13 hours and 36 minutes. It is 1 hour and 25 minutes longer than next lunation 73 length.
Lunation length longer than mean
Length of current synodic month is 52 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 6 hours and 11 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠273.1°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠273.1°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠306.3°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Moon after apogee
5 days after point of apogee on 23 November 2005 at 06:17 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 5 December 2005 at 04:32 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 392 522 km
Moon is 392 522 km (243 902 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 6 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 367 365 km (228 270 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after its descending node on 27 November 2005 at 07:13 in ♎ Libra, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 10 December 2005 at 04:50 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
15 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon before southern standstill
9 days after previous North standstill on 18 November 2005 at 23:39 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.471°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.415° in the next southern standstill on 3 December 2005 at 04:51 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 3 days
After 3 days on 1 December 2005 at 15:01 in ♐ Sagittarius, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.