Waning
Crescent ♏ Scorpio
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 41% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 41% and getting smaller. The 23 days old Moon is in ♏ Scorpio.
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Moon phase and lunation details
1 day after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 22 January 2006 at 15:14.
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 ♏ Scorpio
Moon is passing about ∠13° of ♏ Scorpio tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1841"
Lunar disc appears visually 5.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1841" and ∠1949".
Snow Moon after 20 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2006 after 20 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 23 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final 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
5 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 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 30 January 2006 at 07:47 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 389 291 km
The Moon is 389 291 km (241 894 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 6 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 357 781 km (222 315 mi).
Moon after descending node
2 days after descending node on 20 January 2006 at 12:06 in ♎ Libra. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 9 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 2 February 2006 at 08:02 in ♈ Aries.
Draconic month
17 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
10 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 3 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 6 days
In 6 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.
