Waxing
Crescent ♒ Aquarius
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 19% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 19% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 3 days on 1 December 2005 at 15:01.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♒ Aquarius
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1967"
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1947".
Cold Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2005 after 10 days on 15 December 2005 at 16:16.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- New Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 31 December 2005 at 03:12
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 73 / 1026
The Moon is 4 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 73 of Meeus index or 1026 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 8 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 shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 33 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 36 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠306.3°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠306.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠329.9°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 04:32. It is 11 days after previous apogee on 23 November 2005 at 06:17 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 15 days, until point of next apogee on 21 December 2005 at 02:49 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 367 365 km
This perigee Moon is 367 365 km (228 270 mi) away from Earth. It is 4 857 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 2 991 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon before ascending node
8 days after descending node on 27 November 2005 at 07:13 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 4 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 10 December 2005 at 04:50 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
22 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.
Moon after southern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 3 December 2005 at 04:51 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.415°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.378° at the point of next northern standstill on 16 December 2005 at 07:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 15 December 2005 at 16:16 in ♊ Gemini the Moon is going to be in a Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
