Waning Gibbous on

Moon phase on 12 July 2006 Wednesday is Waning Gibbous, 16 days old Moon is in Aquarius.

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Lunar calendar 2006 | July 2006

Waning Gibbous phase
Waning Gibbous phase
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

Waning Gibbous 97% illuminated

Waning Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 97% and getting smaller. The 16 days old Moon is in ♒ Aquarius.

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Moon phase and lunation details

1 day after Full Moon

Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 1 day on 11 July 2006 at 03:02.

Moonrise and moonset

Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.

Moon in ♒ Aquarius

Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♒ Aquarius tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1948"

Lunar disc appears visually 3.2% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1948" and ∠1887".

Buck Moon before 1 day

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2006 after 27 days on 9 August 2006 at 10:54.

Upcoming main Moon phases

  • Last Quarter in Aries ♈ on 17 July 2006 at 19:13
  • New Moon in Leo ♌ on 25 July 2006 at 04:31
  • First Quarter in Scorpio ♏ on 2 August 2006 at 08:46
  • Full Moon in Aquarius ♒ on 9 August 2006 at 10:54

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 80 / 1033

The Moon is 16 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 80 of Meeus index or 1033 from Brown series.

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Synodic month length 29.52 days

The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 26 minutes. It is 2 hours and 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 18 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 51 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.

Lunar orbit position on

True anomaly ∠97.5°

At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠97.5°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠131.2°.

Moon before apogee

10 days after point of apogee on 1 July 2006 at 20:12 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next day, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 13 July 2006 at 17:35 in ♒ Aquarius.

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Distance to Moon 367 892 km

The Moon is 367 892 km (228 597 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next day until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 364 287 km (226 357 mi).

Moon before ascending node

9 days after descending node on 2 July 2006 at 14:19 in ♍ Virgo. The Moon is located south of the ecliptic over the following 3 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from South to North in ascending node on 15 July 2006 at 20:25 in ♓ Pisces.

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Draconic month

23 days since the beginning of current draconic month in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is navigating from the second to the final part of the cycle.

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Moon after southern standstill

2 days since the previous standstill on 9 July 2006 at 18:49 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.477°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.515° at the point of next northern standstill on 22 July 2006 at 14:34 in ♊ Gemini.

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Syzygy in 12 days

In 12 days on 25 July 2006 at 04:31 in ♌ Leo 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.

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