Waxing
Crescent ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 29% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 29% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 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 ∠19° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1973"
Lunar disc appears visually 1.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1973" and ∠1948".
Cold Moon after 9 days
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2005 after 9 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 5 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
Length of current 73 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 11 minutes. It is 1 hour and 8 minutes longer than next lunation 74 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 33 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 36 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠306.3°
This lunation true anomaly is ∠306.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠329.9°. 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 perigee
1 day after point of perigee on 5 December 2005 at 04:32 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 14 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 21 December 2005 at 02:49 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 363 389 km
Moon is 363 389 km (225 799 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 14 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 405 014 km (251 664 mi).
Moon before ascending node
9 days 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 3 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
23 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
3 days after previous South standstill on 3 December 2005 at 04:51 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.415°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.378° in the next northern standstill on 16 December 2005 at 07:14 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 9 days
After 9 days on 15 December 2005 at 16:16 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.