Waxing
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 21% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 21% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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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 29 January 2006 at 14:15.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon in ♈ Aries
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1954"
Lunar disc appears visually 0.3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1954" and ∠1947".
Snow Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2006 after 10 days on 13 February 2006 at 04:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- 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
- New Moon in Pisces ♓ on 28 February 2006 at 00:31
Moderate tide
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
Lunation 75 / 1028
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 75 of Meeus index or 1028 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 16 minutes. It is 32 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 2 hours and 28 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 3 hours and 41 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠347.5°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠347.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠2.9°.
Moon after perigee
3 days after point of perigee on 30 January 2006 at 07:47 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 11 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 14 February 2006 at 00:48 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 366 898 km
The Moon is 366 898 km (227 980 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 11 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 362 km (252 502 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 08:02 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 14 days later on 16 February 2006 at 14:38 in ♍ Virgo.
New draconic month
At 08:02 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 27 January 2006 at 00:14 in ♑ Capricorn when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.492°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.555° at the point of next northern standstill on 8 February 2006 at 18:18 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 10 days
In 10 days on 13 February 2006 at 04:44 in ♌ Leo 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.
