Waxing
Gibbous ♎ Libra
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
First Quarter 55% illuminated
First Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 55% and growing larger. The 8 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
* The exact date and time of this First Quarter phase is on 3 June 2006 at 23:06 UTC.
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Moon phase and lunation details
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises at noon and sets at midnight. It is visible high in the southern sky in early evening.
Moon in ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing about ∠20° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.7% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1891".
Strawberry Moon after 7 days
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2006 after 7 days on 11 June 2006 at 18:03.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Sagittarius ♐ on 11 June 2006 at 18:03
- Last Quarter in Pisces ♓ on 18 June 2006 at 14:08
- New Moon in Gemini ♊ on 25 June 2006 at 16:05
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 July 2006 at 16:37
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 79 / 1032
The Moon is 8 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 79 of Meeus index or 1032 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.44 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 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 2 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 4 hours and 5 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠64.2°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠64.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠97.5°.
Moon at apogee
Moon is at apogee at 01:41. It is 12 days after previous perigee on 22 May 2006 at 15:29 in ♓ Pisces. Lunar orbit is going to narrow while the Moon is moving towards the Earth over the next 12 days, until point of next perigee on 16 June 2006 at 17:07 in ♒ Aquarius.
Distance to Moon 404 080 km
This apogee Moon is 404 080 km (251 084 mi) away from Earth. This is the year's closest apogee of 2006. It is 1 328 km further than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 29 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon before descending node
12 days after ascending node on 22 May 2006 at 18:00 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following day, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 5 June 2006 at 12:10 in ♎ Libra.
Draconic month
12 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the beginning to the first part of the cycle.
Moon after northern standstill
6 days since the previous standstill on 29 May 2006 at 01:13 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠28.490°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 7 days to face maximum declination of ∠-28.452° at the point of next southern standstill on 12 June 2006 at 10:30 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 7 days
In 7 days on 11 June 2006 at 18:03 in ♐ Sagittarius 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.
