Waxing
Crescent ♋ Cancer
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 30% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♊ Gemini.
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Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 5 days on 29 March 2006 at 10:15.
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♊ Gemini tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 3.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1850" and ∠1919".
Next Full Moon is the Pink Moon of April 2006 after 10 days on 13 April 2006 at 16:40.
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.
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 77 of Meeus index or 1030 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 29 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2006. It is 13 minutes shorter 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°).
The length of the current synodic month is 3 hours and 15 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 2 hours and 54 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠19°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠38.4°.
6 days after point of perigee on 28 March 2006 at 07:13 in ♓ Pisces. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 6 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 9 April 2006 at 13:16 in ♌ Leo.
The Moon is 387 529 km (240 799 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 6 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 551 km (251 998 mi).
5 days after ascending node on 29 March 2006 at 03:31 in ♈ Aries. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 8 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 12 April 2006 at 02:35 in ♎ Libra.
5 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♈ Aries, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
11 days since the previous standstill on 22 March 2006 at 16:53 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.725°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next day to face maximum declination of ∠28.715° at the point of next northern standstill on 4 April 2006 at 07:35 in ♋ Cancer.
In 10 days on 13 April 2006 at 16:40 in ♎ Libra 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.