Waxing
Crescent ♍ Virgo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Crescent 22% illuminated
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 22% and growing larger. The 4 days young Moon is in ♍ Virgo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
4 days after New Moon
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 25 June 2006 at 16:05.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the morning and sets in the evening. It is visible toward the southwest in early evening.
Moon is entering ♍ Virgo
Moon is passing first ∠4° of ♍ Virgo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1771"
Lunar disc appears visually 6.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1771" and ∠1887".
Buck Moon after 10 days
Next Full Moon is the Buck Moon of July 2006 after 10 days on 11 July 2006 at 03:02.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- First Quarter in Libra ♎ on 3 July 2006 at 16:37
- Full Moon in Capricorn ♑ on 11 July 2006 at 03:02
- Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 July 2006 at 19:13
- New Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 July 2006 at 04:31
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 80 / 1033
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 80 of Meeus index or 1033 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.52 days
Length of current 80 lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 13 minutes shorter than next lunation 81 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 18 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 5 hours and 51 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠97.5°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠97.5°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠131.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon before apogee
13 days after point of perigee on 16 June 2006 at 17:07 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next day, until it get to the point of next apogee on 1 July 2006 at 20:12 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 404 781 km
Moon is 404 781 km (251 519 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next day until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 448 km (251 312 mi).
Moon before descending node
11 days after its ascending node on 18 June 2006 at 19:11 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 2 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 2 July 2006 at 14:19 in ♍ Virgo.
Draconic month
11 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is moving from the beginning to the first part of it.
Moon after northern standstill
5 days after previous North standstill on 25 June 2006 at 08:40 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠28.444°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-28.477° in the next southern standstill on 9 July 2006 at 18:49 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Syzygy in 10 days
After 10 days on 11 July 2006 at 03:02 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.