Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Last Quarter 51% illuminated
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
* The exact date and time of this Last Quarter phase is on 22 January 2006 at 15:14 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon is entering ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing first ∠1° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1820"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.9% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1820" and ∠1950".
Snow Moon after 21 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2006 after 21 days on 13 February 2006 at 04:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 29 January 2006 at 14:15
- First Quarter in Taurus ♉ on 5 February 2006 at 06:29
- Full Moon in Leo ♌ on 13 February 2006 at 04:44
- Last Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 21 February 2006 at 07:17
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 74 / 1027
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 74 of Meeus index or 1027 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.46 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 11 hours and 3 minutes. It is 47 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 1 hour and 41 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 28 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠329.9°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠329.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠347.5°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 17 January 2006 at 19:07 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 7 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 January 2006 at 07:47 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 393 800 km
The Moon is 393 800 km (244 696 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 7 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 781 km (222 315 mi).
Moon after descending node
1 day after descending node on 20 January 2006 at 12:06 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 February 2006 at 08:02 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
16 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 before southern standstill
9 days since the previous standstill on 12 January 2006 at 13:12 in ♊ Gemini when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.410°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 4 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.492° at the point of next southern standstill on 27 January 2006 at 00:14 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 29 January 2006 at 14:15 in ♒ Aquarius 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.
