Waning
Crescent ♈ Aries
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 7% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 7% and getting smaller. The 26 days old Moon is in ♈ Aries.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 4 days on 21 April 2006 at 03:28.
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 is entering ♈ Aries
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1965"
Lunar disc appears visually 3% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1965" and ∠1907".
Flower Moon after 17 days
Next Full Moon is the Flower Moon of May 2006 after 17 days on 13 May 2006 at 06:51.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Taurus ♉ on 27 April 2006 at 19:44
- First Quarter in Leo ♌ on 5 May 2006 at 05:13
- Full Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 13 May 2006 at 06:51
- Last Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 20 May 2006 at 09:21
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 77 / 1030
The Moon is 26 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 77 of Meeus index or 1030 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.4 days
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°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
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.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠19°
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°.
Moon at perigee
Moon is at perigee at 10:38. It is 15 days after previous apogee on 9 April 2006 at 13:16 in ♌ Leo. Lunar orbit is going to widen while the Moon is moving away from the Earth over the next 11 days, until point of next apogee on 7 May 2006 at 06:47 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 363 737 km
This perigee Moon is 363 737 km (226 016 mi) away from Earth. It is 1 229 km closer than the mean perigee distance, but it is still 6 619 km further than the closest perigee of 21st century.
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♈ Aries at 12:59 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 9 May 2006 at 08:29 in ♎ Libra.
New draconic month
At 12:59 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon before northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 18 April 2006 at 22:27 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.668°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.616° at the point of next northern standstill on 1 May 2006 at 16:26 in ♊ Gemini.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 27 April 2006 at 19:44 in ♉ Taurus 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.
