Waning Crescent on

Moon phase on 19 July 2006 Wednesday is Waning Crescent, 24 days old Moon is in Taurus.

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Lunar calendar 2006 | July 2006

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

Waning Crescent 31% illuminated

Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 31% and getting smaller. The 24 days old Moon is in ♉ Taurus.

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Moon phase and lunation details

1 day after Last Quarter

Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 1 day on 17 July 2006 at 19:13.

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 in ♉ Taurus

Moon is passing about ∠18° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.

Apparent angular diameter ∠1923"

Lunar disc appears visually 1.8% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1923" and ∠1888".

Sturgeon Moon after 20 days

Next Full Moon is the Sturgeon Moon of August 2006 after 20 days on 9 August 2006 at 10:54.

Upcoming main Moon phases

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 24 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final 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 after perigee

5 days after point of perigee on 13 July 2006 at 17:35 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 10 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 29 July 2006 at 13:02 in ♍ Virgo.

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Distance to Moon 372 712 km

The Moon is 372 712 km (231 592 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 10 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 405 405 km (251 907 mi).

Moon after ascending node

3 days after ascending node on 15 July 2006 at 20:25 in ♓ Pisces. The Moon is located north of the ecliptic over the following 10 days, until the lunar orbit crosses from North to South in descending node on 29 July 2006 at 16:58 in ♍ Virgo.

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Draconic month

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

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Moon before northern standstill

9 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 3 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 5 days

In 5 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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